Panel blasts COVID-19 response: 'Global political leadership was absent' - The Hill

[MerryHolidays]

I couldn't agree more. There was a complete failure globally and in the US, this was compounded by Trump's utter incompetence and/or intentional neglect.

https://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/553047-panel-blasts-covid-19-response-global-political-leadership-was-absent

A prominent panel of political and public health leaders has blasted the international and national response to the coronavirus pandemic, labeling slow and tepid reactions around the world as a preventable disaster that cost millions of lives.

In a report issued Wednesday, the Independent Panel for Pandemic Preparedness and Response called on wealthier countries to do more to help the world end the pandemic and to bolster the global health systems meant to act as a front-line defense to prevent future outbreaks.

“COVID-19 remains a global disaster. Worse, it was a preventable disaster,” the report says.

[Caliman73]

1. Typically, the US, being the most economically powerful nation, leads the response.

We tend to push global responses to crises such as pandemics and lend our support to nations struggling with responses. However, this time, we had a complete moron sociopath as president and he chose to lie, set up competition between state governments, and international organization like the WHO, and bash China and other countries rather than lead a united response.

Had Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barak Obama, or basically any other person, including some Republicans been President, the response would have been very different.

[Budi]

2. President Obama & VP Biden's Pandemic Response Team would have been in place & functioning

"Had Hillary Clinton, Joe Biden, Barak Obama, or basically any other person, including some Republicans been President, the response would have been very different."


Trump fired them.

[Caliman73]

3. True. Not only fired them, but bragged about it.

We had a once in a 50 to 100 year pandemic AND the US had likely the most incompetent President every. Historians typically agree that James Buchanan was the worst president and say so because his inaction and incompetence lead to the events of the Civil War. He was pretty solid in that position because of the death and destruction to the US. Now, I think that Trump can be argued to have been the worst president in history thus far.