16) Trump initially discourages testing so we can keep numbers low so as to not spook the stock market
17) Trump repeatedly downplays the severity of the virus b/c he is afraid of its ecomonic impact. People are still comparing this to the flu even though its 20X more deadly
18) Trump appoints Pence to be in charge despite the fact he couldn't control an HIV pandemic in his own state.
19) Trump classifies all executive branch communication related to the virus so that all expert info goes through he and Pence instead of straight to the people
20) Trump classifies intelligence memos that have warned him since his first day in office that the US was ill-prepared for a pandemic
21) Trump tries to keep cruise ships from docking, going against all medical experts and basically guaranteeing a bigger spread within the ship.
22) Still no tests in my community..they are now doing several postmortem tests b/c they couldn't get the tests while the patients were still alive.
23) With lack of federal guidance until a couple days ago every state is responding totally differently...which undermine the efforts of the more proactive states.
He is doing better now, but hopefully it is not too late. His initial handling of the issue deserved the criticism it received.
To be clear, this is China's fault, but none of us can change political conditions within China. We can demand a better response from our leaders.