US could have avoided almost 400,000 Covid deaths with better response, report claims

[Gungnir]

Originally Posted by ManApplet

Don't shoot the messenger Quite the death toll attributable to rumpy. from: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/w...-b1822564.html

Sure, he could have declared martial law and made 4 weeks incarceration for being outside without a face covering, AND that face covering must be an approved full face with 0.1 micron maximum particle permittivity, and have UV sterilization in the intake after filtration, AND justification for the journey. With increased penalties for repeat offenses, and summary execution for the third offense. Then of course the borders would be fully sealed and shoot on sight policies for people entering the US illegally.

However the constraints he was under was never going to permit that.

It's easy to look at a series of events after the fact in isolation, and determine if this had happened here, and that there, we might have reduced the death toll by some huge amount, say 80%. However while the president has broad powers to act in defense of the US (and its people) pragmatically he couldn't.

Now that's not to say he didn't have some hollers, but, to unilaterally enforce policies that reduce infection rates and deaths by around 80% there would be civil disturbances the like of which the US hasn't seen since the Civil War. Not much point in having 400k people killed preventing 400k people dying of Covid.

[k350]

The original model said what, two million deaths unless something is done?

So what was done saved so far 1.5 million people.

I am sure Cuomo shoving the infected into nursing homes did not help, lol.

[jen5276]

Originally Posted by Tall Traveler

If Biden had been President he would have invited the entire population of Wuhan over and encouraged everyone to give the long hugs to fight racism....and we would be in the millions dead.

So true!