re: Serious Coronavirus Question (March Madness)

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At this point none of these failures matter, we need to be focused on getting ahead of the outbreak and preparing and executing our mitigation plan - no matter the politics involved.

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Indeed. Fortunately, after quite a bit of stumbling to start out, we seem to have gotten our act together. Even if it is out in the wild, and I suspect it is, we will stop it the same way South Korea and Italy are stopping their outbreaks... rigorous medical testing and quarantine to prevent the disease from spreading.

It will slow down over the summer from the heat and probably come roaring back in the fall (which I am sure will thrill Trump if he has to deal with that during a general election).

We will lose some people to it. How many? Hard to say. Not the apocalyptic numbers some people are talking about and certainly not anything like the Spanish Flu of 1918 that killed about 2% of the world's population.

Now, did Trump copulate with the canine in handling the disease? You betcha. Some of his decisions and policies were terrible, particularly at the start of the epidemic.

The thing is... most Presidents make terrible mistakes that were entirely avoidable in hindsight. While the Poliboard sees him as the Beelzebub to Hillary Clinton's Satan most folks think of Obama as a moderately successful President. Yet he screwed up the initial response to the Ebola outbreak in Africa and completely dropped the ball on ISIS and let them get established.

We will never know the death toll that caused but it is at least over 200,000 people at this point.

All Presidents, and all governments, screw up. If they make a habit out of it you need to get rid of them. Otherwise you just have to roll up your sleeves and fix things when they go wrong.