.MaddowBlog: Key GOP senator says United States 'overreacted' to the pandemic
The country "overreacted" in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Sen. Ron Johnson told Axios' Mike Allen during a virtual event on Wednesday.... "[I]n hindsight, I think we overreacted. We closed too much of our economy down, and I don't think we focused enough on what we needed to do: isolate the sick, quarantine them, protect the vulnerable."
At a certain level, the senator's rhetoric isn't too surprising. It was, after all, four months ago when the Wisconsin Republican,"People are going to have to work. People do need to recognize the fact that this is not Ebola. This is not MERS. It's not quite the seasonal flu. But we have to keep things in perspective and we got to keep our economy."
That, however, was in March, when some officials hadn't yet come to terms with the scope and scale of the public-health crisis -- dire warnings from public-officials notwithstanding. Indeed, the day Johnson made those comments, the United States was adding fewer than 1,000 cases per day, and the overall domestic death toll was well under 100 people.
But much has changed in the ensuing months. The United States is now adding nearly 50,000 new cases per day, and COVID-19 has claimed the lives over 130,000 Americans. Imagine looking at these numbers and thinking that the United States"overreacted" to the crisis. Then imagine a political party putting the person who thinks the United States"overreacted" in charge of the Senate committee responsible for domestic security.
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