So, Trump and his administration s should also be held accountable for their response too then, right?
His narrative, mirrored by his administration and Fox, was initially "fake news", "democratic evil plan to impeach me" and etc...Not exactly apples to apples, but if we're to blame China AND give it a misnomer, then we should have the right to admonish Trump and his administration in kind?
Either way, China HAD the responsibility to respond initially and did not do so. They're responsible for the epidemic in China and the pandemic worldwide as it started to spread globally. Trump, is responsible for MOST if not ALL the failures domestically. Say for the damn idiots who keep partying.
Trump can't understand anything but the business and the stock market. The dude looks like a deer in headlights when it comes to health crises. He should have activated the CDC to take lead or at least the Secretary of Health. Then he should had instructed the FDA, NIH, DARPA, and CDC to work with private industries to quickly develop a therapy and vaccine. instead, all the private industries are doing the same research over and over trying to win in the market by being 1st to market. Everyone is squandering valuable research hours and time with high redundancy. They need government intervention. Then you got companies like Roche who decided not to make enough test because it's not profitable enough but they want to "DO GOOD". The defense act took too long. The Stafford act took too long. 3 MONTHS too long. Why did this happen? Trump didn't want to market to panic. Well, it DID! Currently there are 3 BIG ISSUES:
1) Coronavirus shutting down the consumption industry.
2) Financial industry in a tissy hence FED went to ZIRP again like 2008 (we are not hearing this yet)
3) The commodity market is in a tissy too (US 3rd major producer of oil and all of this was finance off loans - SEE #2). US is caught in a OPEC vs. RUSSIA and the price war is going to kill the US OIL industry and those on Wallstreet who loaned massively to build up the infrastructure are going to go bankrupt.