Because the United States is at war COVID-19 Losing

It ‘a scary time to live in the United States. COVID-19, a new disease, ruthless as they are seemingly at random, is recovering from thousands of; also many “recover” from those who can never really the same. The pandemic has exposed citizens to bridge the gap between what promises this country and what it actually offers. And as the US barrels toward Election Day it is the safe blast to complicate the reconciliation process, with potentially disastrous consequences. For a brief period in the spring, has appeared in the United States was to get a handle on his outburst. Hard-hit states like New York curve flattened with success, thanks largely to a halt at national level of non-essential businesses and compliance with new regulations require people to wear masks and practice social distancing. But, like other states have begun in the late spring and early summer to reopen, new hot spots develop before the Sun Belt, in states like Texas, Arizona and Florida, and most recently in the Midwest, in states like Indiana, Illinois and Minnesota. On the West Coast, in California it recorded a new single day for confirmed cases on August 10; on the East Coast, Virginia did the same on August 7 across the country were alarming rates of hospitalization, and deaths seem bound to follow. The United States certainly lose the war against the COVID-19, but did not have to be this way. Among the G-7 countries-US, Britain, Canada, France, Japan, Germany and Italy only we have an outbreak, spin control on. Some other countries like New Zealand have COVID-19 complete (a little less populated ‘performance in a lightweight and to be isolated country to be sure) also close to elimination. Pressing in the months before the pandemic, the United States has been considered among the best prepared countries to be to handle a major outbreak. At this point we can begin to see more clearly why the nation has failed so miserably. A failure of leadership at all levels; a distrust of scientists, the media and skills in general; and rooted cultural attitudes about the individuality and placed on values ​​of life have all lead to a pandemic response horribly inadequate combined compared to the traditional peer-Americans nations considered. What the federal government is in their American duty in a time of crisis to protect the health and well-being, now failed, clearly abundant. Despite the best efforts of public health officials and others, many elected officials in the United States do not take the threat seriously COVID-19 from the jump. Over time, it became clear that the virus is a serious threat, federal efforts were confusing at best. Government Disorder is best illustrated by an incident in April, father in law, where Jared Kushner, senior adviser to her, President Donald Trump, and charged at the time in order to orchestrate the federal response to the virus, confusingly claimed that a supply Federal ultimate fan equipment for patients in critical condition for States was not intended to save. “The concept of the Federal Reserve has been, is supposed to be our dump-it should not be inventories of state they will use,” he said, leaving unclear exactly those fans were, if not for the Americans, the vast majority of them live in a state or another. In some cases, it exceeded the federal response was inappropriate and even harmful. Desperate for deliveries from April deteriorated pandemic, some hospital executives, doctors and other health professionals to shady dealers aimed at organizing the expensive step of China Shipping. At the height of the epidemic, the federal government, some of these broadcasts was catching for reasons that remain unclear. Dr. Andrew W. types of stone, chief executive medical health network nonprofit Baystate Health in Springfield, Mass., Has argued he had to go all the trucks “signs posted as food service personal protective equipment to send vehicles” Federal -Anfall possible to withdraw. The story would be a good make Smokey and the Bandit restart if it was not so exasperating. to meet a complete catalog of failures Trump case, the pandemic is the stuff of books, not individual elements. But a short summary: wasted weeks early to play down to the virus; he stubbornly clinging to a fantastic belief that the virus simply “disappear”; It forbade many travelers from China, but wasted the time he moves a proper assessment to be set is not bought and tracing program; He encourages members to reopen before its management policies; and always has the stats to leave the situation in the US looks much better than it actually is, last published in a disastrous interview with Axios on HBO on August 3, picked by hand in which he, the US death rate mischaracterized the virus. Then there were the masks. Experts say that a significant Trump missteps his refusal until recently to wear in public is to see a face covering. And ‘scientifically proven that a face that significantly covers contributes to the spread of low COVID-19 and a pre-existing culture of masks held in East Asia is often used as a key reason cited for this is that many places in this region in able to quickly control their outbreaks. But in a country without such a rule exists, it is mandatory to guide policies and not to model this behavior. When Trump appeared April 3 recommendations from the US Centers announced for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in the briefing room of the White House that every American a cloth should wear face cover, falls short of the Council of its management experts through this mask Bringing stressed would be “voluntary” and that he personally would not do it. Trump, a man obsessed with self image with long continue to reject mostly of masks, to visit the National Naval Medical Center on July 11, had died at that point already more than 130,000 Americans COVID-19 Trump has something that softens carry on masks, under pressure from allies like South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham and Fox & Friends co-host Steve Doocy. “I can see how this: everything that can possibly help, and [masks] certainly can potentially help a good thing,” the president said during a briefing in July 21 crown. “I have no problem. I wear it. I wear it. He looked at me a few times to wear, and I will continue.” But Trump soon Despite the tone for his party and his followers, no doubt contributing to depress predictable politicization wear masks. A Pew Research Center poll on 25-two in June published weeks before the great resurgence of the virus in early July found that 63% of Democrats and independent Democrat said heavy masks should always be worn, compared to only 29% of Republicans and. Republicans supported independent Nearly a quarter of Republicans (23%), the masks are “never or rarely worn.” as the virus rages on many people see it as an immediate threat, attitudes are changing: 58% of Republicans now they say they wear a mask in favor of the public, according to a July 23 poll by the Associated Press and the NORC Center for public Researc ng business, but this is still far below the 89% of Democrats who say so. Meanwhile, stories of violent encounters between skeptics and carrier mask mask additional securities do almost every week. Masks from the obvious failure of the federal government has been and continues to be a lack of adequate testing infrastructure is, the answer is a key element of the pandemic, such as the audit shows how bad an outbreak is over and the main points shows warm. bottlenecks and delays test were increased by a serious problem in the United States pre-powers have been the beginning of the outbreak, and the plague once again the country as the virus spreads through different states. Some Americans say they are waiting for more than two weeks for their test results, the researchers effectively needless to say only two days (The going people between get tested and receive their results, the greater the window of opportunity for them to be infected with the interim). The Verzögerungen- caused by a mixture of incompetence laboratories with the necessary supplies to get tests to run, the lack of cooperation between the rival laboratories and insufficient federal government has received an education, so bad that the demand for testing in the US The actually it decreases, although the spread of the virus are also a sign that Americans simply afflicts forward to fill with their results also to take the test in the first place. (New rules prevent people asymptomatic in some countries, demand has pushed ever tested.) Instead of increasing demand for testing capacity, Trump has proposed instead that perhaps the United States should be less testing. He has repeatedly, and wrong, blaming the recent increase in cases in the United States entirely to an increase in test. While the United States is in fact more test runs than any other country, the proportion of these tests in June increased positive again by around 4.5% in mid August 12 to almost 8% will come after COVID monitoring project, suggesting that the virus spread, if we test for them or not. (By comparison, in Germany positivity a day, in Italy it is about 2% less than 3%, and in New Zealand, is less than 0.5%) improvement of bottlenecks tests were for President because it is the depth it has revealed the alarming US outbreak. For Trump, the number of US cases are not a public health issue, it’s more like a golf score, the higher you go, the worse it is doing, and he has only so much time doing things in front of the 18th hole reverse left: these elections in November. But rather than address the cause of the outbreak in expansion, has just accused scorekeeping on its embarrassing results. “If we have not done the test, we would not have cases,” the president said during a Fox News event in June. “If you run the tests, you have cases.” In fact, a better public health officials, legislators, and so on help to the true purpose of knowing the outbreak, smarter decisions, as long as they know the real score. Take a quick Scroll through your Facebook feed. If you’re like many Americans, then there is a good chance that you are mixed with photos of children and leisure, the posts that (falsely) COVID-19 statement is a global conspiracy Bill Gates-led or (falsely) claim , that the mixing ginseng, orange juice and cooking oil claims the secret cure or (falsely) that the whole pandemic is a hoax. (Facebook and other social media companies are at least testing misinformation outbreak of fighting, but this is a Sisyphean task if there ever was). Despite the corrosive effect of social media, Americans tend on the whole to have more trust in science, as in many other countries, according to a study in 2018 of the Wellcome Trust. Our faith in scientific leader has remained constant in recent decades, say about 40% of Americans have a “great confidence” in the scientific community every year since 1973, according to the NORC Center. Also, before the pandemic, the percentage of Americans who had at least “a fair amount” of confidence that scientists working in the public interest, has reached 86% in 2019, according to Pew. However, deep trench shows a worrying partisans trend is now so important to play out: Democrats while 43% still Pew said in 2019 that they had a “great deal” of confidence in scientists only 27% of Republicans said the same. In addition, Democrats were more likely to also (73%) believe as Republicans (43%), scientists should take an “active role in the political debate” the results that the American right-wing of ongoing efforts harbingers of officials public health and other experts to minimize, found that while 89% of Democrats social distancing considered “very important”, the same is true in a survey published in June, researchers at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) for only 66% of Republicans was. The researchers also found that a person tends JHU faith in science to predict if you follow the guidelines for public health: while 80% of Republicans who said that the confidence of the social distancing science was important, only 55% of Republicans said the same question the science. The president and other national leaders and right-wing commentators have routinely decried during public health crises often criticize their calls to close to businesses and other drastic but necessary measures. Trump has also reinforced the messages that undermine the legitimacy of the American public health facilities. “The wildesten lies there, that COVID-19,” he tweeted Chuck Woolery, a former host game-show turned political commentator, on July 12, “lies Everyone. The CDC, the media, the Democrats, our doctors not all, but most, we are told trust. ” The next day Woolery Trump retweeted message to his 83 million followers. No person is better the bitter politicization of science as Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of long standing of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Fauci, whose role during the pandemic is first and foremost the development of vaccines and to communicate with a frightened public, were the American scientists line up COVID-19 to coordinate. He is also a straight shooter, set its open admissions on the weak points of the country to face the outbreak has left him with most others in the administration at odds Trump, a very public quarrel with the leader president. While Fauci says mild criticism on Trump and was measured-: “I was the American public in any case, not misleading,” said ABC’s Good Morning America on 28 July, after Trump retweeted messages that suggest otherwise have bouts of Trump Fauci centered the public debate. Now it is in many ways Robert Mueller crisis, a Trump officials of the old school to see this trailer as an enemy, but to see his opponents as heroes. The reality is that Fauci like that Mueller’s just a guy trying to do his job as best he can, despite the highly politicized circumstances. Some lost confidence in science is the face of organizations for public health are constantly changing at least understandable COVID-19 recommendations. This is rooted in the reality that the scientific understanding of the emerging virus is real-time science develops slowly it; the virus is fast. But the advice evolving may not know what they do make it seem like the public health officials. If groups like the World Health Organization recommends that people wear delay accept the face of cloth coverings and that SARS-CoV-2, the virus that COVID-19 has caused, probably, the air does not instill confidence, not public, especially those already triggered experts skeptical. “It ‘s really a confusing environment information that we are currently in,” says Dr. Colleen Barry, president of Health Policy and Management Department at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. “In a theme that life or death, people want to know what they should do and what they should not do. Because it is a new infectious disease, a new virus, we do not have all the answers scientifically. Sometimes we have small pieces of information, but do not fit together in a broader response to specific questions. i think it creates an environment which could further erode confidence potentially over time. “Really worrying are the numbers of Americans who are already saying that they are reluctant to get a COVID-19 vaccine, if and when it becomes available. In light of recent research suggests that “natural” herd immunity against this virus is almost impossible to achieve such a vaccine is our only way of trust back to something like a normal life, but mass vaccination only works with enough buy-in from an advertisement. The damage that the President and the other, the confidence of Americans in science and experience could overcome this pandemic seriously affect the country’s ability, although Trump does not win a second term in November this year. It’s no secret that Americans tend to be people to be individualistic in many other countries. A 2011 Pew poll found that 58% of Americans that “the freedom to pursue life goals without state interference” is more important than the state “nobody needs”, compared to only 38% of British, 36 % of Germans guaranteed and French, and 30% of Spaniards. It ‘easy to see this property as the cause of the country struggles with COVID-19 Finally, a pandemic requires people to make temporary sacrifices for the collective good, whether to wear a mask that they find uncomfortable or a birthday party planned the cancellation. But in fact, the Americans have shown time and again that they are willing to work together to achieve a common goal, especially in times of crisis. Most of the major achievements of the country to defeat the independence of the 20th century plague Nazism man on the moon, efforts in most municipalities were established. “We come together on many, many things, if we have a good leader,” says Dr. David Rosner, a professor at Columbia University who specializes in the history of public health. Regarding COVID-19, perhaps more instructive to American individualism Our general view on the specific illness beliefs about themselves with respect. The Americans have different views about the disease since colonial times had, Rosner says, with a little ‘as a public issue consider collective action and others for states that, for those who should be sick left. The words and actions of the leaders of the country, national feelings slip into one of these two directions, says Rosner, and Trump has clearly opted for the latter. “We take our cues from leaders,” Rosner says, “and it seems to be that vorschlagen, ich to be a moral person, do not get a disease and not be sick, and I can walk around my mask and do not contribute because after all, it is only the poor and weak and stupid and immigrants – [that] is just the ” other ‘that is really vulnerable, well, then the Americans will begin to believe that. ” There is another disturbing undertone the US attitude towards the pandemic so far: the mass death will part inevitable acceptance of daily life. We, as a nation, we have become deaf tragedy by exposure almost daily to unspeakable horrors of unbridled armed violence on seemingly endless cases of police brutality during the crisis clean water in Flint, Mich., And elsewhere. “In hindsight, Sandy Hook the end of the US debate gun control marked” columnist Dan Hodges memorable almost three years noticed after the 2012 tragedy in which he killed a gunman shot and 26 people in an elementary school, Connecticut; Congress could not pass new gun laws, on the wake of terrible accident. “Once America has decided to kill the children was bearable, it was over,” Hodges wrote. It ‘hard to quantify apathy. But what thousands of Americans inevitably die next to a torpid accept COVID-19, may declare that a quarter still do not believe that Americans-about 82 million people, the masks should always be worn in public places? What else to explain that Disney World partially open for new guests on July 11, before a day of his home state of Florida, reported more than 15,000 new cases oriented day, then a record for the United States and people came moderately? What can explain that, while significantly aviation, hundreds of thousands of airline people mostly tourists, also get every day, possibly spreading the virus as they move to the country, whether they know it or not? It argues optimistic about the future of the pandemic in the United States, are far to be so, America’s new hot spots have not seen the catastrophic death that states like New York and New Jersey have suffered. Probably it is because deaths are a lagging indicator, but it could also be because doctors have gotten better treatment for the virus. Governor of California has announced a major rollback its reopening plan in mid-July in the midst of an alarming spike in new cases show that at least some leaders rethink their strategy into reality to make. Several efforts to create a vaccine continues apace; it is possible, at least one will be available later this year, although this is probably a generous estimate. And there is a possibility that, as the virus rages on, more Americans get on board with the public health measures. “There is a learning curve to the public about what really happens is that, in my opinion, at least in the long run, [offers] a potential convergence,” says Dr. Ann Keller, an associate professor at the UC Berkeley School of Public health, specializing in health care policy and politics. “The fact that the Americans are beginning to say, ‘If everyone is not wearing masks when not every social distancing when the parts of the human family in a lot of people together, if there are recommendations from public health to make fun, we’re going to keep to view the broadcast. “” No matter appears the pandemic probably weakened the United States and in the short term in the case for at least starting with hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions of his own citizens dead. We have already made significant fundamental flaws, a catastrophic frayed social safety net to dangerous systemic racism for life on sight. It ‘has made it clear that many do not think of it ourselves, damaging our guardian brothers, perhaps forever a sense of community among neighbors. And It has to import our position on the world stage-the ideals mutilated Americans would if the ideal death to scale up? Many Americans will not survive this pa ndemia. those who will be left with a lot of work, ourselves and our country to fix. -In Emily signaling and Baron made to control by Julia Zorthian and Mariah Espada August 17 correcting a caption in the original Eu hen version of this story, the photo agency false information that the photos of bodies buried union Hard Iceland New York. It was Reuters, AP does not.
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