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It matters quite a bit in terms of getting beyond the Blame Game and getting to a national unity that will be quite useful in dealing with a crisis that is the moral equivalent of war. 

The magnitude of the health and economic challenge alone should be enough to result in national unity of an equivalence to what the nation experienced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.  I don't think the difference between national unity lies in the difference between it originating in a bat to human (maybe via another animal) transmission versus it originating from an inadvertent escape from a virology lab.  This was an unprecedented opportunity for the current president to display leadership, and... he hasn't.  His net approval ratings improved about 7 points and has started falling back again.  On the other hand, with the exception of Ron DeSantis, governors approval ratings have skyrocketed, with Newsom, Cuomo, and DeWine improving 30+ points.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mos...-outbreak/

(and I have noted that I had been unimpressed by Newsom until his response to the coronavirus).

BC

[BostonCard]

It matters quite a bit in terms of getting beyond the Blame Game and getting to a national unity that will be quite useful in dealing with a crisis that is the moral equivalent of war. 

The magnitude of the health and economic challenge alone should be enough to result in national unity of an equivalence to what the nation experienced in the immediate aftermath of 9/11.  I don't think the difference between national unity lies in the difference between it originating in a bat to human (maybe via another animal) transmission versus it originating from an inadvertent escape from a virology lab.  This was an unprecedented opportunity for the current president to display leadership, and... he hasn't.  His net approval ratings improved about 7 points and has started falling back again.  On the other hand, with the exception of Ron DeSantis, governors approval ratings have skyrocketed, with Newsom, Cuomo, and DeWine improving 30+ points.

https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/mos...-outbreak/

(and I have noted that I had been unimpressed by Newsom until his response to the coronavirus).

BC