False. Just complete and utter BS.. You should start by taking three deep breaths.
You should start by getting outside of your bubble.
So how has the United States' response been?
"Our response is much, much worse than almost any other country that's been affected," Jha says.
He uses the words "stunning," "fiasco" and "mind-blowing" to describe how bad it is.
What's not being widely reported (yet...but don't worry, I'm sure it's going to blow up very soon), and this is may be scarier than the virus itself because the virus itself can be contained and mitigated, is that there seems to be willful acts by our government to suppress the actual number positive cases for political optics. Willful ignorance and bad acts by our government can not be mitigated or contained. In fact, they shut down a lab in Washington for using a test that was developed to identify the first case of community contact in the United States, but since it was not the "official" CDC test (that was later found to give false readings) they told the facility to suspend all testing and shut them down. Testing is still not being widely done, even though we have the means from the private sector and independant labs, because testing leads to more positive identifications. For some (doesn't take a giant leap to figure out who), positive identification is a bad thing when governments in every other country battling this are aggressively seeking out positive infections to contain it and mitigate it. We had a chance for containment earlier, and now we've lost that window.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/11/podcasts/the-daily/coronavirus-us-testing.html?showTranscript=1
The United States is now rapidly, and literally, becoming a petri dish. I heard an infectious disease expert say that most people don't take these things seriously until someone they know, or they themselves, becomes infected and dies. I would never wish that on anyone, but if people don't take these things more seriously, then people will die. Even if you're not elderly or have a underlying health issues, you can still get extremely sick to the point is hospitalizes you. THAT is what people are ignoring...everyone is just looking at death totals. There is a WIDE band of what can happen when you become infected. It's not just a low fever or death. Quite a few will become hospitalized. Even if hospitalization doesn't lead to death, it can lead to inundating our medical systems and taking away resources that would otherwise be targeting other issues.
Let's get something straight. This virus is NOT the fault of our government. They did not create it. However, they are ultimately responsible for the containment and mitigation of it. So far they have failed horribly in containment, and now they are failing horribly at mitigating it.
