Covid-19 exposed world powers badly

For most fellow followers of TV series like House and Grey’s Anatomy or movies like Contagion, Hollywood had made us believe that should a virus outbreak occur, the American health system, security apparatus and valiant heroes would swing into action and save the world. That was before Donald Trump became president and handling a real pandemic.

In one of his latest attempts to downplay the devastating effects Covid-19 has wrought on America, one of Trump’s tweets on March 26 read, “...if I hadn’t done my job well, and early, we would have lost 1.5 to two million people, as opposed to the 100,000 plus…”