I don't understand this mentality when other Western Nations are going through the exact same thing.
Did the administration cause every other countries problems with containing the virus too?
Did the administration cause every other countries problems with containing the virus too?
The per-capita chart is most notable. Other Western countries' responses haven't been stellar either, but the US's is particularly flawed.
US is 21st in per capita deaths (and falling... that is, it was 18th a couple days ago.)
Spin all you want about testing and the like.
But, the fact remains that the US's medical system is doing a better job than the other western countries.
Its striking that Italy, Spain, Netherlands, Switzerland, France, Belgium, UK, Sweden, Denmark, and Austria have more per capita covid deaths than the US. (Looks like Germany is about to be added to that list.)
I do not see how any rational and objective analysis could characterize the US's response as 'particularly flawed'.
>Did the administration cause every other countries problems with containing the virus too
The American people did not elect and pay other countries to take care of them, they did for their government. The administration dismantled the pandemic team from the highest levels and along with their media cronies, actively minimized it for several weeks[1][2] and made it political, which is costing lives now. The other countries did not do that to Americans.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifKbwDf51bA&feature=youtu.be...
[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/15/opinion/trump-coronavirus...
There have been failures from the top to the bottom. But let’s not pretend that there hasn’t been a systematic, intentional degradation of these agencies that has only served to exacerbate those failures.
Indeed we probably got the virus at the same time as European countries but had no idea because we didn’t test....that’s why we have more cases than any other nation except Italy and China (and soon will have more than Italy).
The United States is supposed to be the most prepared country to deal with a pandemic like this, yet the administration failed at its duty to protect its citizens and economy, even with ample warning from the world's best medical experts and intelligence agencies.
If America is struggling to contain this, how are impoverished countries supposed to?
Based on what? For years - long before the current administration - health experts in the US have been talking about how unprepared the US is for a pandemic. So where did you get this idea?