Almost everybody made mistakes, and sometimes they repeated each other's mistakes! But eventually, most countries got it right and they got a handle on the problem. It still remains to be seen if everybody will come out of this with relatively limited damage, but at least it appears most of the major, industrialized nations have turned the corner on this. And they did it it by paying attention to their public health authorities. Let's face it, dealing with epidemics has been a fairly well-established science for more than a century now. It is not a "high tech" exercise. All it requires is a little management skill, something which our business-oriented capitalist politics should have no trouble coming up with.

We have no lack of money, resources and talent in this country and we have excellent public communications and logistic capability. If we don't get this sorted out soon we'll know exactly who's to blame.