[Scooter_Stepford]

China allowing the video of all the excavators deployed to build an emergency hospital on Jan 23, was ALL I needed to see to know this was a serious threat to the world.

Unfortunately, the heads of state in the rest of the world weren't as smart as you. That might be due to their loss function being much different than yours. If you are wrong, the worst that happens is that you maybe get teased about it. If a head of state is wrong, the consequences to him personally and his nation in general can be catastrophic. That is why most heads of state make decisions much more slowly than you do, and require much more consensus before they act. While it is true that this may cause them to act too slowly, it is almost always what will happen.
Also, unlike you, they actually have to do something. They have to convince their nation to follow them, while you can just be right all by yourself. It they recognize the problem but adopt a bad plan, they still get crushed, as does the nation. So it isn't apples to apples.

The heads of state in the rest of the world....

Ummm, you mean the heads of state in the western world.  

Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and several other Asia countries saw the January events, understood there was a major pandemic emerging, and took aggressive actions all before the first of February.   

It would be one thing if some Cardboard member was alone in the "I told you so world", but by late January there were dozens of world leaders taking action and literally running to their national playbooks on emerging pandemics. 

The USA playbook was written by Clintons, Obamas and Bushes.   That was "our" problem.  POTUS thinks very little of those people, so he opted to go with "cheerleading" instead.

The opposition advertising will write itself with President Trump's press conferences providing so many sound bites.  The one where he declares he is the USA's cheerleader will be front and center.

The SuperPac ads will conclude with something like this

We don't need a cheerleader, we need a commander.

With a shot of Joe Biden cursing at a voter to emphasize the point.  That’s a winning strategy!

[Scooter_Stepford]

China allowing the video of all the excavators deployed to build an emergency hospital on Jan 23, was ALL I needed to see to know this was a serious threat to the world.

Unfortunately, the heads of state in the rest of the world weren't as smart as you. That might be due to their loss function being much different than yours. If you are wrong, the worst that happens is that you maybe get teased about it. If a head of state is wrong, the consequences to him personally and his nation in general can be catastrophic. That is why most heads of state make decisions much more slowly than you do, and require much more consensus before they act. While it is true that this may cause them to act too slowly, it is almost always what will happen.
Also, unlike you, they actually have to do something. They have to convince their nation to follow them, while you can just be right all by yourself. It they recognize the problem but adopt a bad plan, they still get crushed, as does the nation. So it isn't apples to apples.

The heads of state in the rest of the world....

Ummm, you mean the heads of state in the western world.  

Singapore, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, and several other Asia countries saw the January events, understood there was a major pandemic emerging, and took aggressive actions all before the first of February.   

It would be one thing if some Cardboard member was alone in the "I told you so world", but by late January there were dozens of world leaders taking action and literally running to their national playbooks on emerging pandemics. 

The USA playbook was written by Clintons, Obamas and Bushes.   That was "our" problem.  POTUS thinks very little of those people, so he opted to go with "cheerleading" instead.

The opposition advertising will write itself with President Trump's press conferences providing so many sound bites.  The one where he declares he is the USA's cheerleader will be front and center.

The SuperPac ads will conclude with something like this

We don't need a cheerleader, we need a commander.

With a shot of Joe Biden cursing at a voter to emphasize the point.  That’s a winning strategy!