I hate Trump as much as the next guy, but there was no expert consensus for what you describe in Europe or US in February.
We still have not enough data to understand what’s going on. What leads to increased excess mortality of coronavirus in some places may very well be a combination of a broken health system (Italy, US, Spain), air pollution (northern Italy and Hubei province), which leads to respiratory diseases, and several other factors.
Experts knew about these things before coronavirus, but zero fucks were given by politicians.
