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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/22...rus-333122



Some posters on the board have "defended" our shitty response as being a factor of cultural or systemic issues, outside the scope of who the President is. There probably is some truth to it. But while you could wave away South Korea's success as due to prior SARS experience, how to square the much better state all of Europe is in compared to the US at present?



If we had Obama, or hell probably most any other president, I think our numbers would look more like Europe's than our present situation. This has been a failure from the top.

The argument that the US was incapable of suppressing Covid falls apart as soon as you look at any other country (or even the US states that seem to be getting their initial outbreaks under control).  Yet people here keep telling us over and over that there was nothing we could've done to stop covid.  It's an argument that's so flimsy that it only takes a single sentence to dismiss it, but people just keep repeating it.

I don't want to hear about SARS-cov-1 anymore or early action in February.  If New York state can get their outbreak under control then anywhere can with good leadership.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/06/22...rus-333122



Some posters on the board have "defended" our shitty response as being a factor of cultural or systemic issues, outside the scope of who the President is. There probably is some truth to it. But while you could wave away South Korea's success as due to prior SARS experience, how to square the much better state all of Europe is in compared to the US at present?



If we had Obama, or hell probably most any other president, I think our numbers would look more like Europe's than our present situation. This has been a failure from the top.

The argument that the US was incapable of suppressing Covid falls apart as soon as you look at any other country (or even the US states that seem to be getting their initial outbreaks under control).  Yet people here keep telling us over and over that there was nothing we could've done to stop covid.  It's an argument that's so flimsy that it only takes a single sentence to dismiss it, but people just keep repeating it.

I don't want to hear about SARS-cov-1 anymore or early action in February.  If New York state can get their outbreak under control then anywhere can with good leadership.