Tag: Coronavirus; public health

“They would like to have the people come off,” he said. “I would like to have the people stay. I told them to make the final decision. I would rather — because I like the numbers being where they are. I don’t need to have the numbers double because of one ship that wasn’t our fault. And it wasn’t the fault of the people on the ship either. OK? It wasn’t their fault, either. And they are mostly Americans.”

Americans, including our President, are so focused on individual responsibility for health outcomes of any kind, that we can't help but reach for "fault" talk even when discussing an epidemic or pandemic.