As coronavirus spreads, so do doubts about America's ability to meet the moment
As the novel coronavirus spreads through communities across the country, it poses a critical question: Can America’s people, institutions and government collectively rise to the occasion to defeat a once-in-a-generation crisis?
With a global pandemic testing the country’s political, financial, social and moral fabric, there are growing signs that answering in the affirmative has become increasingly difficult.
Bureaucratic missteps have led to a shortfall in tests needed to determine the true scope of the virus. Hospitals are pleading for more medical equipment as doctors resort to using homemade masks. Financial markets have lost a third of their value in less than a month. Reveling spring breakers have hit the beaches in defiance of a nationwide social distancing campaign.
Companies, some of which celebrated tax cuts by rewarding shareholders with record stock buybacks, are preparing to lay off millions of workers while pleading for a government bailout.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/coronavirus-tests-american-belief-that-the-country-can-rise-to-meet-any-challenge/2020/03/21/b177ef26-6ae7-11ea-9923-57073adce27c_story.html
I think it's only a matter of time before Trump tries to shut down all criticism of his response to this crisis. We are governed by an incompetent nincompoop supported by a party of criminals, cowards, and traitors.