See, this is the problem with US politics. Your experts and your press are absolutely convinced that those US Covid-19 deaths are the fault of Trump and that if

See, this is the problem with US politics. Your experts and your press are absolutely convinced that those US Covid-19 deaths are the fault of Trump and that if the idiot population had voted for someone they liked more those people wouldn't have died, even though this has no basis in actual reality. The US Covid-19 deaths are completely and utterly average for a Western country. (The worst death toll currently is the Czech Republic, which everyone was pointing to as the European success story that showed everyone else should be able to do better less than a year ago. This could well change again, of course, just like it did before. A lot of this seems to be luck. Though the current US vaccination rates make it much less likely to rise up the list again.) Also, all the information about what supposedly worked was distorted by politics too. For example, all of the countries like Taiwan which managed to keep it out relied heavily on imposing border restrictions early, but borders and travel restrictions were seen as evil, Trumpian things - a "prophetic" piece of fiction where President Trump responded to a pandemic by imposing increasingly futile border closures did the rounds on social media early on - so they were completely omitted from US media narratives about how those countries had succeed. Instead they focused on stuff like Covid testing, because of another equally bogus narrative that Trump had sabotaged that. (The US actually had a really ambitious testing program... right up until the tests arrived at labs and were defective. Apparently it turned out some career CDC employee hid the fact they were contaminated and let them roll out to labs, but this was missed by almost all the media coverage, probably because it had nothing to do with Trump.)