It was indeed a shitshow, as you point out. But I would still argue that the most incompetent mishandling of the situation today is better than the most compet

It was indeed a shitshow, as you point out. But I would still argue that the most incompetent mishandling of the situation today is better than the most competent handling possible back then, because we have electronic communications, germ theory of disease, it’s just a different world now. That’s not to minimize how abysmal the trump reaction to covid was. But we have built in advantages now.