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"Several hundred thousand people are dead because politicians failed to act effectively" I couldn't disagree more with this. Several hundred thousand people ar

"Several hundred thousand people are dead because politicians failed to act effectively" I couldn't disagree more with this. Several hundred thousand people are dead because mother nature saw fit to allow a virus no living person had immunity from to jump into the human population. Sadly, the predictable occurred and no politician was going to do very much about it. Looking back on it, the only effective preventative measure that had any chance at all of working in the US would have been to totally seal the national borders about mid January 2020. At the time the politicians were too busy trying to impeach the executive office holder who may have debatably held the authority to accomplish such an action. When there finally were inbound travel restrictions implemented the leadership was yet again accused of Xenophobia and Racism per usual opposition schtick (farcical as US residents returning from abroad were just as much of a risk). In my opinion, with the benefit of hindsight, this could have all been avoided in the US had such an action been taken. It wasn't and here we are. The world is poorly made I regret to report.

simonh 6y ago
The impeachment was over by mid-January so that timeline doesn't line up. As for the executive office holder, he spent the next several months on the one hand telling a journalist the virus was a dire national security threat, much worse than flu and really nasty, while at the same time telling the public is was just a flu and a hoax, and blocking emergency preparations because he didn't want to spook the markets. Nice priorities there. A prerequisite to taking any kind of coordinated or effective action is actually treating the threat as a priority. Clearly the chief executive, while being completely aware of the threat and its severity, had other things on his mind that took precedence over the risk of half a million dead Americans.
kaba0 6y ago
> Several hundred thousand people are dead because mother nature saw fit to allow a virus no living person had immunity from to jump into the human population. Of which many would have been preventable. Do you think the mass protests, calling it a hoax (yeah I know the usual rhetoric, he didn’t explicitly say it to COVID, but come on, he did try to half-ass two things with that), the useless too little too late closing of borders, some states going on as if nothing happened, sunbathing on the beach and I could go on. All that with a pandemic that is known to have an exponential growth rate - that is even doing very little in the beginning will save many many people.
mrfusion 6y ago
Even January may have been way too late.

simonh 6y ago

The impeachment was over by mid-January so that timeline doesn't line up. As for the executive office holder, he spent the next several months on the one hand telling a journalist the virus was a dire national security threat, much worse than flu and really nasty, while at the same time telling the public is was just a flu and a hoax, and blocking emergency preparations because he didn't want to spook the markets. Nice priorities there. A prerequisite to taking any kind of coordinated or effective action is actually treating the threat as a priority. Clearly the chief executive, while being completely aware of the threat and its severity, had other things on his mind that took precedence over the risk of half a million dead Americans.

kaba0 6y ago

> Several hundred thousand people are dead because mother nature saw fit to allow a virus no living person had immunity from to jump into the human population. Of which many would have been preventable. Do you think the mass protests, calling it a hoax (yeah I know the usual rhetoric, he didn’t explicitly say it to COVID, but come on, he did try to half-ass two things with that), the useless too little too late closing of borders, some states going on as if nothing happened, sunbathing on the beach and I could go on. All that with a pandemic that is known to have an exponential growth rate - that is even doing very little in the beginning will save many many people.

mrfusion 6y ago

Even January may have been way too late.