But other countries aren't doing so well either. Is everyone stupid? Maybe it's the nature of the problem. A safe environment works counter to an operating economy. There's no way to split the baby.
Jurisdictions that opened up too quickly without proper public health measures in place are showing an increase in infections with subsequent completely predictable results. None of this is new, none of this in unexpected, public health authorities have been warning people for months. We're seeing the results of hubris and false sense of security. No one is immune from making dumb moves. But to continue to claim that the US is not especially hard hit is wilful blindness.
You seem to interpret everything as a personal attack, which is odd in relation to Trump, because one of his best points, which you personally stated on numerous occasions, was that he told it like is. But apparently that's only ok if you think he's telling you what you want to hear. To criticize the US's woeful response should be a call to action, but it seems as if it's being interpreted as an attack. It's close to being pretty self-evident that reaction is counter-productive.
As many others have often stated, the virus doesn't care about politics, it spreads the way it spreads. But if you want to frame the entire discussion in terms of individual rights instead of public health, that's fine, just please stop trying to convince yourself and others that the economy benefits from that because I'm not seeing any evidence of that.
