No shit? The first Trump admin absolutely gutted the CDC and the FDA and red states suppressed any discussion of pandemic spread by either harassing or firing public health officials who dared to speak publicly. DeSantis sent a SWAT style raid team to one public health lady’s house at 3am because she wouldn’t shut up and fall in line. So yeah, no shit our public health apparatus isn’t functioning.

If you want to be terrified go look at the public health folks on Twitter try to track H5N1 spread. It’s way more virulent than COVID, sticks around in the air and on surfaces significantly longer and we’ve been effectively ignoring it as it spreads through much of our cow, chicken and pork farms. The CDC and Dept of agriculture are supposed to be on top of situations like this and they’re too scared to talk to the public for fear of being fired.