Solid Article

Solid article here (long, about 37 pages here) on covid, our reaction to it and all the failures along the way.  Much of it, if you've been paying attention, is well known. Trump's reactions (how, essentially, he decided to let American die, never mind the incompetence) also well known. But there were initial fuckups from public health officials. A big one was fighting the previous war in thinking that SARS2 = SARS1. And then it was waiting for more information (more solid data) when there was anecdotal (doctors in China) information about human to human transmission and how easily this thing spread etc. [1]
 Still, much of that, of what happened in spring can be forgiven (to some extent). It's what comes after that's pretty shocking. Birx comes across well as she apparently spent the summer going around American trying to talk sense into mayors and governors. Good on her. But that doesn't explain, then, how many of these places she visited still are messing up (Cali, for example). 
Hell, the article has a bit on Wall Street (how the stocks are doing so well) and manages to not once mention the trillions thrown at them to make sure they can stay afloat. So comprehensive it is not, but it is damn good and worth the read. It also mentions the right wing threats on Fauci, his children. The madness in general, that seems to still be with us as the virus kills thousands a day. Far worse than the spring. But apparently we have to be worried about the right wingers. 
Shame.
Want to hear your thoughts on it. 
[1] I would imagine the public health playbook for pandemics will be rewritten. The article seems to be a little strong pro-travel ban while not really looking at how they worked or didn't work (and perhaps they do while information being able to be sent over the internets allows for a global effort without as much traveling) and which levels of a ban, like a level of lockdown, worked the best, if at all. In fact, that is a weakness of this article in that it doesn't compare all the different ways come countries managed to bring the pandemic under control, or not. Fair, it's only about America, for the most part. And it also doesn't touch on the second wave (where some countries, like Czech Republic haven't been doing so well), which is fair, given the timing. 
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