By now it is crystal clear. The USA took the wrong economic approach to deal with the pandemic.
Europe did the right thing. The USA did the wrong thing.
Here's the difference. In Europe, their economy was successfully placed on pause, then restarted when it was safe. They did this by making certain that jobs were preserved even when workers were unable to come to work. Governments made social assistance payments to employers to maintain payrolls even though no work was getting done.
The USA allowed workers to get laid off, businesses to fold. Instead of paying employers to keep workers on the books and maintain their health care coverage, direct payments were made to everybody whether they were laid off and needed it or not. That is not where the money should have gone.
Retrospectively, we can see all this now.
Europe has more experience at socialism. They know how to do it right.
The USA needs to learn some lessons from the far more mature countries in Europe.
We are so busy proclaiming we know how to do government better we don't pay attention to those who have more experience at this than we do. And if we know how to do government better then why do Americans have such a low view of the government we created? It makes no sense.
Europeans value their government more than Americans value ours. In Europe, the governments fear the people. In the USA, the people fear the government. How did this happen? How did we end up with trainwreck Trump and why do we refuse to admit it was a huge mistake?
