The problem with our response to COVID in the US is that China didn't give the world a fair shake. https://medium.com/@georgetoparis/the-book-rage-on-china-f5d

The problem with our response to COVID in the US is that China didn't give the world a fair shake. https://medium.com/@georgetoparis/the-book-rage-on-china-f5d3359c5af2 https://medium.com/@georgetoparis/the-book-rage-on-china-f5d... A second reason is all gov were bad to solve novel problems 0 to 1, but good at solving 1 to 2, 2 to 3 problems. HK, Singapore, Korea Japan had experience to protect itself, swine flu, bird flu, SARS, etc. Western world had not. But the truth of the matter, we're victims of geopolitics, media, and social media blaming thy neighbor. Go look at U.S. fatalities due to COVID which NYT posts at 200k as the time of this writing. Then go look at CDC U.S. registered deaths annually, which was last reported at 2.8M. While I am sympathetic for those who loved lost ones for whatever cause of death, quick maths show that in 0.8% of the population dies in a normal year, and COVID-19 blimp would increase it to 0.9 to 1.0%. We've grossly overreacted.