Comment by a_humean

That death rate is insane. How can republicans do effectively nothing about this public health disaster? I am singling out republicans rather than the political class generally as right now they have control of most state legislatures and governorships, control of congress, control of the senate, control of the supreme court, and control of the presidency. If they wanted to do something to address this, they can do it. Evidently they would rather people just die.