Some problems are public problems and should have public solutions. Public health is called public health for a reason. As soon as there was evidence that a pandemic was on the way, the government should have taken serious and effective action. Perhaps there even should have been a pandemic office to plan for such an event!!! Here’s one thing that should have been done—there should have been a nationalized industrial program to produce the equipment needed, so there would be no shortages. There should have been a national testing program right away, so that the early cases could be tracked and confined. There should have been a bipartisan economic program to protect those who would lose their jobs. Here we are in July and the US still has no effective program in place to deal with this crisis. This is not just incompetence, though that plays a role, but a deliberate refusal to take responsibility. The failure of the government is a massive crime.
Some problems are public problems and should have public solutions. Public health is called public health for a reason. As soon as there was evidence that a pandemic was on the way, the government should have taken serious and effective action. Perhaps there even should have been a pandemic office to plan for such an event!!! Here’s one thing that should have been done—there should have been a nationalized industrial program to produce the equipment needed, so there would be no shortages. There should have been a national testing program right away, so that the early cases could be tracked and confined. There should have been a bipartisan economic program to protect those who would lose their jobs. Here we are in July and the US still has no effective program in place to deal with this crisis. This is not just incompetence, though that plays a role, but a deliberate refusal to take responsibility. The failure of the government is a massive crime.