> You do get that a reasonably conservative projection is that within a year most people in the world would have gotten COVID-19? How the heck did Trump do that?
Certainly doesn't help that he fired the US's pandemic response team a few years ago (that pesky "deep state" he's been ranting about). The rest of the world has their own responsibility to some extent but the US usually takes point on these kind of things.
He's also had the CDC sandbagging testing for it. He's been claiming coronavirus is a liberal hoax for weeks now, and anyone who contradicts him gets fired.
One of the side effects of that has been the CDC refusing to approve states that developed their own testing (as they are required to get CDC approval). Because they don't want to be seen as arguing that COVID is not a liberal hoax.
>The rest of the world has their own responsibility to some extent but the US usually takes point on these kind of things.
The US has 330M people. The rest of the world has over 7B. The rest of the world needs to get over this idea that the US is the leader on everything; the election of Trump should have been the canary in the coalmine that the US just can't be trusted for global leadership any more, and continuing to do so is dangerous and foolhardy. As you said, it's been "a few years" since the pandemic response team was fired; so why would any country have trusted the US since then for pandemic response ability or competence?
Certainly doesn't help that he fired the US's pandemic response team a few years ago (that pesky "deep state" he's been ranting about). The rest of the world has their own responsibility to some extent but the US usually takes point on these kind of things.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/trump-fire-pandemic-team/
He's also had the CDC sandbagging testing for it. He's been claiming coronavirus is a liberal hoax for weeks now, and anyone who contradicts him gets fired.
One of the side effects of that has been the CDC refusing to approve states that developed their own testing (as they are required to get CDC approval). Because they don't want to be seen as arguing that COVID is not a liberal hoax.