US COVID Response

My recommendation is don't create conspiracy theories when the easiest explanation is incompetence.You'd be surprised - even though most businesses are fast at reacting to global events and responding accordingly, the US government is notoriously slow. The US hasn't faced or reacted to a serious pandemic before (the swine flu in 2009 was largely considered part of flu season).

That would surely have more to do with the USA's general inability to deal with Covid?

Title should specify that this is in the US. Other countries that have handled the virus properly would have much more positive news

Counterexample: the US is having by far the worst response to the COVID-19 pandemic due to lack of top down leadership.

This is melodramatic America-bashing. The U.S. is nowhere near a third world country.This issue was due to the ineptness and hubris of the current administration, which defunded relevant initiatives, ignored the warnings, and refused to learn lessons from other nations' experience with the virus.Our medical system is fully capable of managing this with the proper preparation and supportive social policy. In fact, there is not a medical system in the world that could manage a pandemic

If you don't do what China or South Korea did, we're not "going to be fine". The US handling of this is extremely poor. One shouldn't give the people false hope.

I think we haven‘t seen global failure, we have seen how different governments have come up with different solutions to protect their people. It seems that those with recent experience of handling epidemics (like MERS) have fared much better than those who haven‘t. This is simply a learning curve effect - if a pandemic were to happen again in the next 10 years, responses would be much more swift and also more consistent; it is dependent on the resistence if the healthcare system - state-run syst

Pandemic response in the USA was atrocious, and it's politically convenient for those who support the administration that was responsible to try to deflect blame however they can. So I'm very skeptical of the motives of people that keep posting stuff like this.

I don’t think the handling of Covid is really indicative of government incompetence (except perhaps a complete lack of coordination nationwide on Covid efforts). Our federal structure was a compromise to keep the U in the USA. So it is expected that each state will do things as it sees fit. China is an authoritarian state that needs tight control in order to maintain the status quo, so of course it was able to quell the pandemic. South Korea and NZ are both small and relatively centrally governe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razorIMHO they simply (for one reason or the other, but not intentionally/with malice) underestimated the seriousness of the problem at hand and thought that they would have created panic/economy disasters/etc..The issue seems to me that even now quite a few governments are failing to introduce adequate measures to