QOTD -- Cataclysmic Failure

"None of this had to happen. It is a failure of cataclysmic proportions. It has many roots. It has revealed many insufficiencies and failures in our society and institutions. But the scale of it, the unifying force of it is a man who never should have been president, who has abandoned his responsibility to lead and protect the country, making it every state for itself, a chaos only organized by a shiftless and shambling effort to help himself at all costs at every point." -- Josh Marshall on the response to the coronavirus by moron vector Donald "COVID Donnie" Trump, and the decision to adopt a "just live with it" approach to the pandemic.  To date, there are nearly 3 million confirmed cases and 132,196 deaths in the U.S.  The JAMA Internal Medicine just published a study estimating that the actual number of deaths is likely 28% higher. Without adequate testing, we don't know how many more Americans are COVID- positive, although the CDC (!) estimates that the prevalence of infection is 10 times higher that the confirmed number of 3 million. "A failure of cataclysmic proportions" indeed.