Originally Posted by Hedley

The bulk of the management in this country has been at the state level, and not the federal by design. That is how our government was meant to operate. This is also a global issue. Countries all over the world have managed in different ways, and the virus still mostly does what it wants. We praised the EU for being strict with lockdowns while we did nothing, and yet they are getting hit again despite their actions. A virus doesn’t pay attention to borders or politics. We live in a global society, the virus is everywhere, and there is nothing any government entity could do to stop it. Hopefully we can come up with a vaccine to slow the spread, as well as effective therapeutic treatments to reduce the mortality rate. We can no more blame one administration in any country for the number of deaths, than we can claim that another one would have prevented them.