Right now, to me, I blame most of this on bad luck. But, out of all the possible responses, I’m not sure this one is so bad so I’m not sure there is any “blaming” to be done.
Although the US has the most cases, we are 20th in the world in terms of deaths per million.
Also, in the US, the novel corona virus for which there is no immunization, has still not killed more than 25% of the people that the flu has killed. Yes, NY is bad. Yes SF is bad. But all told, I could imagine alot worse.
It is sad that the people who like Trump are using this to say he is doing well and the people who don’t are using this to say he is awful. I say he has nothing to do with it either way. In the end, people have to choose the path of this thing.