Seriously? You 'haven't been paying attention'?
So you don't realize, that with 4% of the world's population, the US has 25% of the deaths.
You haven't been paying enough attention to realize that much of the industrialized world has this under control? That New Zealand has eradicated it?
The main reason the US is so far behind is simply because Trump didn't do anything substantial for several weeks. He was waiting for it to "go away".
He stopped travel from China (and proposed stopping travel from Mexico - remember that argument?) because they have dark skin.
He DIDN'T stop travel from Europe, even when it was clear that Italy had a pretty severe problem...
Because they were white.
He 'fiddled while the corona burned' (and didn't even get that it was an insult).
Now we're opened up. And it's spreading. The positive cases found today were almost certainly infected 2 or 3 weeks ago. So, even if we closed everything down again (and the Trumpettes won't let that happen), it will be 2 or 3 weeks of 40k+ new cases... EVERY DAY.
Do the math. 17 days of 40k is...
SIX HUNDRED EIGHTY THOUSAND NEW CASES.
We're fucked.
Thanks to Trump.