Vietnam and China are dictatorships. Do we want o adopt that approach? New Zealand is an island far away from most things that made the job far easier. Now si

Vietnam and China are dictatorships. Do we want o adopt that approach? New Zealand is an island far away from most things that made the job far easier. Now since the US is not a small island in the middle of nowhere and we remain a democracy Those are poor choices to copy. Australia is far more investing. As usual for American commentators biased politically they pick through the ever shrinking list of countries that did well. To measure or failure or success in handling the pandemic we must also look a countries that did worse or about the same. No country did everything right. Most did a lot of things wrong. Which is unfortunately to he expected when a global crisis breaks out. There is no good reason why nobody was prepared. Lots of studies done predicted it. As usual politicians were lazy and short sighed. At every level of government In so far as being unprepared at a federal level special blame befalls Obama and Biden. They went through a small pandemic and had the dangers demonstrated to them in real life. Biden likes to take credit for beating it. They screwed up a lot and they got lucky. You would have expected them to spend every waking moment following it to band sense into congress and the senate. Write executive orders. Increase funding in science and research. Instead they did nearly nothing and did not even resupply the national stockike they had depleted. They did order a lot of anthrax medication. When Trump took over allegedly the Obama administration gave the Trumo administration a report on what a pandemic would be like and what to do. In the apparent hope that the Trump administration would do what they failed to to do. The Trump administration instead did quite the opposite. I am sure nobody even read the report. And we know what happened from there on. I do personally place social blame at Omaba and Biden for the sole reason they lived it and it could have gotten very bad. This should under all circumstances prompted immediate change in focus. In spendig and in planning. Their near total failure to try act responsibly became a fatal mistake that has killed half a million Americans. Trump was a real estate tycoon and an idiot with no experience in government and no experience in handling a pandemic of any size. The chances of him getting all the preparation done was close to zero. So he stared from scratch when it all began. Not to forget a series of reorganizations and funding changes that in retrospect were horrible ideas. A lot of the failures of the Trump administration were mimicked in other countries. Not that they took their lead from me orange there was just a lot of mistakes that got made.