COVID-19: U.S. at Center of Pandemic, and That’s Not a Coincidence

There are reasons that the U.S. is the epicenter of the pandemic, and that Europe, Canada, and Mexico have closed their borders to American would-be travelers.

One, of course, is that we have no positive leadership at the federal level vis-a-vis disease containment; if anything, we have negative leadership, in that our president is corrupt and incompetent; he’s at war with science, and now routinely attacks this country’s top public health physician.

The other, illustrated at left, is the tragedy that we have terrible “followership,” as well.