Your neighbor's house catches fire. The fire spreads to your house and other people's houses.
Other people manage to fight the fire. You do nothing. "Why should I save my own people? It's the Chinese! I can use that excuse for the rest of time and never have to take the slightest precautions against the disease."
Germany got the virus before the US did, it's denser, it spends less on healthcare, and yet their numbers have constantly been far lower because they took common-sense precautions known for a hundred years, and took them seriously.
You should read the article - https://www.statnews.com/2020/06/19/faster-response-prevented-most-us-covid-19-deaths/
If the US had done as well as Germany, 100,000 Americans who died horribly would still be alive.
There's an objective measure of "how well a region is dealing with an epidemic" called the stringency index, one from before COVID. You can predict a country's COVID results from that score. And the US scored 5.7, on that test, where Germany scored 25, and South Korea, 38.
"To compare each country’s responses to the pandemic on a consistent basis, we turned to the work of an Oxford University team that has constructed a stringency index based on 13 policy responses (lockdowns, border closings, tests, etc.) to measure how strongly each country responded over time. The Oxford index shows that 14 days from the date of the 15th confirmed case in each country — a vital early window for action — the U.S. response to the outbreak lagged behind the others by miles. The U.S. stringency score of 5.7 at that point was 25% of Australia’s (23), 23% of Germany’s (25), 18% of Singapore’s (32), and only 15% of South Korea’s (38)."
Trump has continually downplayed the virus and flouted health measures.
There are endless videos of him doing exactly this. Future schoolchildren will be shown this as a warning.
Half a million Americans will die. The history books will say, "A delusional madman told a pack of lies about a dangerous pandemic and half a million Americans died horribly."
