No, the reason America has the highest rate of infected is because of the fact we have the absolute worst healthcare system (that actually works/exists) in the world. We make people afraid as F to take precautionary visits to the hospital for their own health. Also, excluding China (which has a cubic fuckton of problems including intentionally hiding the # of infected), America is perhaps the country with the most high-density population centers in the world, which makes spread infinitely easier.The fact that Trump continues to try to downplay Covid is why America continues to have the highest rate of infected.
The real problem with the U.S. is our healthcare system is ultimately ass. We charge a leg just to have a check up to ensure we aren't sick. We charge two arms for medicine that might not even work because the drugs are basically on auction to the doctors - whoever pays the hospital/doctors more gets the higher chance of being the medicine they default to suggesting (I would know - I went through hoops as a child over some meds I needed). We've made a business out of people's health - out of keeping people alive - and that's atrocious. People's health should be a basic right, instead we need to pay exorbitant fees for it. Healthcare is, in practice, the problem with capitalism, and one of the FEW sectors of our society I wholly believe a more socialistic function should exist - same as Police and Firefighters.
Were there less fighting over money and the sort for medicine, the doctors could focus more on actually aiding/saving lives. And as a result of this, Americans are hesitant to get tested for diseases that Covid may latch onto that cause its fatality rate (and rate of crippling individuals afterwords). That's where the majority of the deaths TRULY come from.
And as for contraction, even to this day the WHO and CDC can't figure out the fuck Covid really does, and continue to swap their opinion about how it works literally every other frickin' week to month, give or take. If you honestly think most people make their decisions about Covid BECAUSE of Trump, and not because that's their inherent behavior/mentality, you sincerely underrate the stupidity of the human race.
Edit: And like Gregory said: The management on Covid's on a state level. There's only so much Trump could do when he has people who intentionally go against EVERYTHING he decides, almost violently, just to oppose him as a fascist. Hell, let's be honest with ourselves, IF TRUMP DID SHUT DOWN THE COUNTRY TO PREVENT A COVID INFLOW, they'd just call him a fascist anyhow for it!
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