"Instead of galvanizing the US populace to fight the pandemic, President Trump publicly dismissed its threat," the report in The Lancet explains.

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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.

  • asaharyev [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    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.