The Trump administration has already decided to surrender to this pandemic. They're just betting that enough voters in key swing states are on board with their alternative reality that they won't notice or care about their grandparents and elderly neighbours dying.
Lets hope we'll be able to look back on this period in history, and evolve to be better than this.
No it doesn't. Evolution occurs due to change in allele frequency in a population over time. Relative death rate of certain organisms in a given environment is certainly a mechanism for this change in frequency, but it is not necessary for evolution to occur.
[edit] Rather, not the core drivers but the core direction-setters.
>They're just betting that enough voters in key swing states are on board with their alternative reality that they won't notice
The propaganda that is digested by Trump supporters solidly claims that: (a) covid isn't that bad, it's just the flu, (b) people who are scared of it are not really Americans, and (c) any noise about it being dangerous is just the liberal left trying to undercut Trump.
This is the world we live in. Put on Fox or any AM right wing station - those are the talking points. It's all so disheartening and just, I don't know, depressing maybe is the word?
The result was that we got 50 different responses, not coordinated with each other. And to some degree that was appropriate - New York City needs a very different response than Loving County, Texas. That would be better handled at a state level than a national one.
The problem is that the state responses were too political and not enough medical. That might lead you back to thinking of a national response. But a national response would likely also be political rather than medical (for which Trump does deserve the blame). Even more, it would be perceived as political rather than medical (for which Trump also deserves some blame).