Explaining the Failure to Control the Spread...








Nearly every country has struggled to contain the coronavirus and made mistakes along the way.
China committed the first major failure, silencing doctors who tried to raise alarms about the virus and allowing it to escape from Wuhan. Much of Europe went next, failing to avoid enormous outbreaks. Today, many countries — Japan, Canada, France, Australia and more — are coping with new increases in cases after reopening parts of society.

Yet even with all of these problems, one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained outbreak for more than four months: the United States.

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When it comes to the virus, the United States has come to resemble not the wealthy and powerful countries to which it is often compared but instead far poorer countries, like Brazil, Peru and South Africa, or those with large migrant populations, like Bahrain and Oman.

As in several of those other countries, the toll of the virus in the United States has fallen disproportionately on poorer people and groups that have long suffered discrimination. Black and Latino residents of the United States have contracted the virus at roughly three times as high of a rate as white residents.

How did this happen? The New York Times set out to reconstruct the unique failure of the United States, through numerous interviews with scientists and public health experts around the world. The reporting points to two central themes.
First, the United States faced longstanding challenges in confronting a major pandemic. It is a large country at the nexus of the global economy, with a tradition of prioritizing individualism over government restrictions. That tradition is one reason the United States suffers from an unequal health care system that has long produced worse medical outcomes — including higher infant mortality and diabetes rates and lower life expectancy — than in most other rich countries.
“As an American, I think there is a lot of good to be said about our libertarian tradition,” Dr. Jared Baeten, an epidemiologist and vice dean at the University of Washington School of Public Health, said. “But this is the consequence — we don’t succeed as well as a collective.”

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Yet even with all of these problems, one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, susta


Yet even with all of these problems, one country stands alone, as the only affluent nation to have suffered a severe, sustained 

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  1. Here in Idaho ho ho, the legislature is trying to eliminate health department
    recommendations, putting the legislature (of course, why not?) in charge of
    managing the pandemic. I've ordered more masks. I thought WWII was bad, but
    I dunno.....

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  3. Once again the Anti Semitic Mr.Franco Aragosta, also know as Free Stinker finds it amusing to blog about this ridiculous, emotional, hypocritical, crap! Congratulating MR. STINKER for doing your best to make Shaw the subject of ridicule. Only because of her Progressive persuasion. YOU REALLY THINK THAT YOU ARE SO CUTE, BUT YOU ACTUALLY ARE AN IMBECILIC OLD MAN WHO VERY MUCH NEEDS TO NE PUT OUT TO PASTURE WITH THE REST OF THE ANIMALS

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    1. Wasn't this a copy and past anonymous? In any case however the sentiments encapsulated in the comment are just about right.

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