China has turned the coronavirus corner – at least for now, reporting no new cases Thursday.
But the spike in the United States is just beginning to skyrocket, partly because we have poor leadership – a president who denied a problem until very late in the game – and other leaders, even medical officials, who largely took their cues from him.
Apparently no one thought it could happen here. Except, perhaps, for lawmakers such as Republican Sen. Richard Burr of North Carolina, Republican Sen. Kelly Loeffler of Georgia and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California. They were among a number of senators on high-ranking committees who sold their stocks before the truth they apparently learned in briefings but didn’t broadly share was made apparent to the rest of us through events.
But for the moment, let’s just consider the health crisis and testing debacle of COVID-19, not the financial and moral fallout.
China finally put teeth in its stay-home edicts. Here in the U.S., we’re saying prayers and “trusting the public,” to quote Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee about his recommendations on how to blunt the spread of coronavirus.