Living up to your user name with a crazy answer. Your post reads like you're the only nation in the world which dealt with covid. You have 3% of the world's populaltion and 16% of the deaths. Compare this with Obama's swine flu pandemic response: 15% of the world's population, 1% of the world's deaths.
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Faucci didn't "lead" your response. Donald Trump and the White House lead the response. Faucci's advice was ignored and downplayed. Notices being issued by the CDC were diluted and watered down BEFORE the White House issued them You didn't use masks nationwide and you didn't lock down nationwide,, and unless ALL of you do it, it doesn't work.
The states which REFUSED to lock down or mask - Texas and Florida, had the highest rates of death and disease. Try sorting the list by "deaths per million" of inhabitants and watch all of the red states go to the top of the chart. But you consider them a "success" because their economies didn't shut down. Property before people with Republicans, always.
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The states that DID lock down, had lower rates of death and illnes than those who refused. In fact COUNTIES which masked and locked down had lower rates of disease and death than counties that didn't, but you continue to ignore the eviden.
The origination of the virus is irrelevant to the American outcome. Masks and lockdowns worked in every other first world nation - all of which had much lower rates of disease and death than the USA.