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It’s pretty obvious that you are correct: our awful response was in large part dilute to the crappy excuse for a president we had at the onset. I mean, what kind of “leader” walks around without a mask and holds large rallies indoors where masks are optional, where our “leader” pushed useless drugs to treat the disease, where our idiot leader pushed states to reopen when the metrics were still terrible etc etc. Our “leader” was responsible for tens to hundreds of thousands of unnecessary deaths-which makes him a mass murderer.I base "handling covid well" in deaths/unit population. Places that had lower deaths obviously implemented more effective procedures and programs than places that had higher death rates. I think that's pretty much considered the universal way to compare responses to deadly epidemics by every subject matter expert on the planet...
Of course the United States wasn't going to do as well as China or Japan. But we could have come close to how Canada did. We didn't, and people are trying to excuse the lack of national leadership on the topic as one large factor in the poor response.
No one should forgive him for that.