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so, Ohio, and Cali's Death rates from coronavirus (COVID-19) as of June 26, (per 100,000 people) are pretty good
Pennsylvania not so good

I understand this is not the only measurement of "good"

what would a good leader have done?

which mayor, governor, or national leader was good and saved their people?

the Governor of Utah because their fatality rate is 0.87%???

• Pay attention to developing world events. It's your job as a politician at the national level and arguably at the state level. Anticipate and respond. Defending one's country, and one's constituents is your #1 job.
• Lead by example.
• Early out of the box get on top of design and production of accurate tests.
• From the many unemployed, train and hire contact tracers using federal money. Consider this the point of the spear of national defense to a pandemic.
• Put together a task force in January or February responsible for locating firms to produce PPE, and ventilators and contract with those firms through FEMA. FEMA then distributes these products on an "emergency" basis where needed. Isn't that the mission of FEMA to dole out resources in an emergency?
• It is apparent in retrospect we should have stopped travel from Europe earlier. I didn't know it then, but I would guess there are some experts who did know it.
• New York should have shut schools in February instead of wringing hands over how difficult it would be on working parents to do so.  Soon working parents would no longer work -- which was worse? I know through my work that at least Iowa has a position called, "State epidemiologist" as our state epidemiologist testified in federal court when I worked there in the 1980s. I would be surprised if most other states did not have a "state epidemiologist." Where were their voices when the feds' were so lax?
• Dining in is enjoyable, but every one of us can live with outdoor dining or carry-out dining during a pandemic.
• Create regulations governing meatpacking plants after the 1st outbreak rather than worry about whether a meatpacking plant would get sued for violation of the standard created. If packing plants violate standards designed to protect workers in a pandemic, that is their problem. But they paid off the politicians.
• Prohibit mass indoor gatherings. We knew early-on what happens when the church choir meets two hours for practice and a few weeks later 4-people are dead. There should be no exception in a pandemic.
• When the ICU occupancy rate is 90% keep telling us that we can't go back now that we are open, then stay open for a week before backtracking (oops -- I didn't say that, did I?).
• Remove one's head from the sand, i.e. repeat #1.

While you froth at the mouth, yes, the masses get their news from poor sources.  Not sure what it has to do with me.

Frothing at the mouth? Hardly. Your post just pissed me off for a minute.

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