In a couple of months, when you are working through the grieving process about the loss of your parents, aunts, uncles, brothers, mentors, sisters, husbands, wives, remember that this unfolding tragedy could have been prevented. Two months ago, the phone rang in the middle of the night, and the resident of the White House took it off the hook. An administration hollowed out by a years long concerted effort to destroy the institutions tasked with protecting our nation, led by a narcissistic charlatan, surrounded by fawning sycophants, not only ignored the threat, but actively disinformed our citizens. Nature made Covid-19, but hubris, disregard of science, and greed made it into the American tragedy that you are about to witness.
Please remember this when you are burying your family members and friends. It was going to be bad no matter what, but it did not have to be a catastrophe.
Link to Reuters article which explains the difference between what is happening here, and what happened in South Korea.