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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
It's a bit more complex than that. Previous administration bungled containment initially. But really, was this ever going to be contained in a nation this size? No.
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There are parts of this country - like the Dakotas - that had a reasonable shot at avoiding this thing altogether had it not immediately become politicized. While it is sparser still, parts of Australia more or less did, aided by interior travel restrictions and distance. Similar restriction might have been unconstitutional here, but could have been tried had the elected GOP president decided to take it seriously instead of actively downplaying it. We will never know how many marginal lives were lost because of it.
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But as far as pushing aside FDA and other bureaucracies and getting vaccine makers to move quickly, prior admin deserves a lot of credit.
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Not sure about how substantive that was, but it certainly deserves credit for agreeing to buy a lot of vaccine.
