I'm sure the CDC could've done better, but even if they did the political benefits in terms of public trust likely wouldn't have actually materialized. I live i

I'm sure the CDC could've done better, but even if they did the political benefits in terms of public trust likely wouldn't have actually materialized. I live in England, the country whose early warnings about the dangers of the Delta variant this article points to as proof the CDC and the US government should've known, and even here there's pervasive media-fuelled conspiracy theories about why the government didn't close off travel to India before the Delta variant got here (before it was even recognised as dangerous). Supposedly, the only reason was because they wanted a trade deal with India and we could've avoided the whole wave if not for that, and it even got nicknamed the "Boris variant" after our prime minister because of that.