If you think you can tell which leaders did the best job with coronavirus, you are not trained to compare things rationally. I’ll give you a few reasons why, but there are dozens...
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Did Trump’s pushing to reopen the economy get the risk-management balance right? We won’t ever know. But if all you do is count COVID-19 deaths, you only have half the story. Strong economies keep people alive too.
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Was our preparation insufficient? Probably. Did it matter? Probably not much. We weren’t going to test our way out of this like some island nation.
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Critics will tell me all the things Trump did wrong that are simply obvious to any observer. That isn’t a thing unless you can measure the impact. And we can’t. All we know is that leaders did different things and got different outcomes. We don’t know why.
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Would the leaders of New Zealand or South Korea be as successful managing the crisis in the United States as they have been at home? We don’t know. But good luck to any leader trying to manage 50 American governors.
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The point is that we will never know which leaders were skillful and which ones were lucky. The corporate world is mostly like this, and the smart CEOs take credit for good luck and blame the last CEO for bad luck.
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There were a couple of Darwin award winners, but that's all.
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Possibly masks.
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I have people telling me that if he had only said to wear a mask in the beginning, that we could have basically saved everyone.
People really think they're magical shields don't they? Not to mention that the "experts" were saying to NOT wear one in the beginning. -
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Well there were a couple of some of the real intelligent left that took fish tank cleaner and tried to blame that on him.. Word has it though that the wife was in reality trying to off her husband.. Case pending.
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