Original article from: Business Insider
The White House scrapped a plan by the US Postal Service to send every American household a face mask in April, The Washington Post reported on Thursday, citing documents obtained through public-records requests.
The Post obtained thousands of internal Postal Service documents that revealed previously unreported details of the agency’s struggle to deal with the Trump administration’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Most countries didn’t downplay COVID-19, and they didn’t experience widespread panic. Furthermore, COVID outbreaks hit European countries and Asian countries well before hitting the United States. Trump had ample time to observe what happened elsewhere, and he knew mass-panic wasn’t a big concern. What should have been his big concern? Preventing avoidable death and disease. Preventing the collapse of our economy. Trump failed.
Trump’s decision not to send masks to every person wasn’t about avoiding panic. It was about appealing to the fringe anti-mask protestors who make up part of Trump’s base.
The United States has exceeded 200,000 Covid-19 deaths, and the millions of people are out of work. If Trump had handled it properly, we would have avoid most of those deaths, and we would be on the road to economic recovery.