It's weird they haven't tried to replicate our system, where the president denies the threat even exists the first two months, then outbids states for ventilators that he distributes as political favors, while hawking an unproven medicine every evening like a 19th century barker. https://twitter.com/EllenBarryNYT/status/1246531849528184832

Germany/SKorea are instructive b/c we can apply their death rate per capita and mortality rates to our eventual numbers to arrive at the exact number of deaths to blame on Donald Trump, a complicit Republican Party, cowed Democratic leadership, and a for-profit medical system.

Anyway, what Donald Trump is doing is derelict and shocking and insane, and that should be the only headline he receives, day after day after day after day.

People are going to die specifically because our leader has the magical-thinking mind of a spoiled child and the total disregard for human life of a serial killer, and nobody with the power to check him will do so, not while there's money to make, or any chance of political risk.