But what is happening is that, on an absolute (ie non-relative) basis, you can see that the US response is a disaster.
And this is promoted by the malicious negligence of the president:
no testkits
inadequate PPE
too few ventilators
All of this while the president makes up an imaginary response for Fox News viewers.
With this administration I think the US gets the uncontrolled pandemic everyone else is having some success in controlling. The point of avoiding the pandemic is because if you don't, the health service will quickly be overwhelmed, and many more people will die because they cannot get medical help.
So applying laisser faire logic to the virus is the antithesis of what healthcare is. Laisser faire allows nature to decide the outcome: let the virus take care of things, allow the vulnerable to die to get things over asap. Or put another way, kill Grandma to save the Dow.
Healthcare is an intervention in the marketplace to prevent the virus behaving as the market decides.
From a UK perspective, the former kills 250,000 people, the latter +/- 20,000. It's obvious which way will work better from a humanitarian perspective. I suspect the latter will also work better from an economic perspective too. People dropping dead around you on the tube as you go to work may JUST have an impact on job performance. Sitting at a desk unable to breathe may JUST mean you don't do a great job on your next presentation. Don't you think?
Easter? The orange fatty is a sociopath.
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