This is such a bullshit headline that hides the actual underlying problem.
40 percent of COVID-19 pandemic deaths in 2020 would have been averted if America's mortality rate was equivalent to other wealthy peer nations
What actions from the Democrat controlled government have changed course at all from Trump's policies? None.
Nothing would be different, except people would be somehow even more accepting of a half million dead in the USA.
Ok, this won’t be a popular opinion, but a Clinton admin would have probably mirrored What Trudeau did in Canada - government subsidezes wages, direct payments, etc. but with brutal austerity once it was over.
A Clinton government would have been competent. We’d also be at war with Iran and probably a few other countries though. At least sanction warfare.
Plus, Clinton probably wouldn't have in front of cameras everyday with encouraging people to not take the virus seriously, saying it's just the flu, children are immune, masks don't work, etc.
On the other hand, certain segments of the population would be even more firmly in the plandemic/hoax/fuck-you realm simply because it's Clinton telling them to stay inside.
The US hasn't mirrored Canada in any other aspect of their governance, except the attempted extermination of native populations and rabid destruction of the earth to extract fossil fuels, so I'm unsure why we would follow them on public health. Especially since we already have eschewed and demonized their response to healthcare being a human right.
Obama and Clinton had the opportunity to follow Canada's example on healthcare and decided that profit was more important. This would be no different. And we will see that under Biden. Just as we have seen it in states with Democrat governors.
Direct payments and subsidized wages? I sincerely doubt it. Pelosi outright rejected those ideas early on, as a matter of principle.
We probably would have taken it more seriously to begin with. Which would have helped. But anything short of doing a proper lockdown with contact tracing and mass testing, followed by strict quarantines anywhere the virus is detected, is going to eventually lead to large uncontrollable outbreaks.
Remember that Clinton is a neoliberal centrist, whereas Obama and Biden are center right. The neoliberal playbook in this case is direct payments and subsidies to keep the economy afloat followed by severe austerity. Trudeau and Johnson are following this playbook, and will follow through with the austerity as conditions improve. Clinton would have had an eye towards how history would remember her in the moment and swung her ideology accordingly. Don’t forget how vain she is.
Remember that Trudeau is a minority government propped in part by our NDP, unlike how a Clinton admin would exist.
If Trudeau was a majority govt, we wouldn't have had the response we did. So in america, they'd care even less about trying to do something.
The GOP-led Senate would have blocked all of those wage subsidies and payments though.
Or she’d be impeached by that point in the term
Yes. A Clinton government would’ve ripped up the nuclear deal and assassinate their top general.