Is US faltering on the Corona pandemic front ?

The Covid 19 pandemic (commonly called the Corona virus spread) has been taking its toll across the world.  Starting from Wuhan animal meat in the Hubei province in China,  (Israeli intelligence though points fingers at the WHO Institute of virology where clandestine Chinese research was happening on bio-weapons), the virus spread from Wuhan by beginning of January till beginning of March for right weeks when the epidemic now became a pandemic.

China was slow to disclose the world that it was in the grip of the Corona virus. Since China was slow to disclose the facts, the restbof the world in good faith continued its transactions and engagements with China both at the private front and the government front.

South Korea ably handled the testing phase which made a big difference in identifying the infected, isolating them and reducing the deaths.

Where did US falter ? I am not an expert in advising policy on avoiding spread of global pandemics. But feel US should have declared a national lockdown ten days back , like India did on 15 March 2020.  Instead US citizens, unaware of the pandemic threat and buoyed up by an equally unaware political leadership took many wrong steps which over the past two days has seen US climb to the top position globally on numbers infected, crossing a lakh plus.

The virus is in total grip of US people, economy and society and only a divine intervention can help solve the situation and limit the damage. So worse is the situation that has gone out of control of the hand of US politicians. US families will see more deaths of citizens and ensuing heavy grief of losing loved ones.

Though President Trump wants to open the country for business activity before Easter,12 March,  Bill Gates differs with Trump on this front and wants the lockdownv to continue till all traces of the  virus are removed. 

How soon will that happen is the question.

George 

George