I wrote a lot of takes about how at some point Trump would be faced with a real crisis and then we'd pay the price for his various apparent pathologies. https://twitter.com/mgiant/status/1248698098559242245
I should add: The surprise here to me that I'm trying to decide what I make of is that a bunch of normal European countries with normal leaders seem to have badly bungled this too.
Easy to make allowances for Italy — it's objectively difficult to be hit early plus nobody thinks of Italy as a model of good governance anyway. But the per capita stats on France and the Netherlands are awful too.