The Washington Post 70 days lost story highlighted a broader breakdown of government. We have a weak Secretary of HHS who couldn't get the President's attention, an acting chief of staff who was in the process of getting fired, a National Security Council that had been 1/1

gutted with the pandemic office disbanded, an acting Director of Homeland Security who clearly didn't have all of his various divisions looped in, a CDC that was afraid to speak the truth because of Trump and his penchant for firing people who speak the truth and finally 2/2

who has the attention span of a gnat, who trusts his own superior knowledge over people with real knowledge, whose interest was in getting reelected not fighting the pandemic and a staff that didn't have one person who could stand up to him and tell him to knock of the 3/3