The vast majority here besides the most ardent, hard right Trump sympathizers, will agree that the response from not just the Trump administration, but the federal government, it’s associated entities as well as many local/state governments, while now rather prudent, was too slow from the beginning on the coronavirus for a multitude of reasons. Large sects of both parties did not take this crisis as seriously as they should have, but more centrists and those in the left took it more seriously and did so comparatively sooner than Republicans, that fact is still evident even when you look at the comments in this very thread & their concomitant political beliefs, there’s very little, if any room for debate there.
As I’ve stated previously numerous times here, it’s amazing how much we could have accomplished and been more well equipped if we would have focused on our response to the virus weeks ago rather than being worried about how it was being overblown or politicized in the media. Other countries, especially China, should foot a lot of the blame for this initially slow response in covering up evidence of the true extent of the virus, etc, but the responsibility of our actions ultimately falls on our shoulders and we definitely deserve a significant portion of it.
Hopefully, many people take a good, hard look into the mirror in the aftermath of this crisis and aren’t as quick to rush judgement to the severity of the situation because of how its been historically portrayed by “x” group of people, news outlets, etc., and adhere to a “better safe than sorry” mentality. It’s no better than taking the European or GFS model for “x” weather situation because this model was the first to catch onto____ lately, or typically performs better with ______, every case is different and at some level, quasi-independent should be treated in such a manner.