American bureaucracy and coronavirus: Crisis exposes weaknesses - Washington Post

The government’s halting response to the coronavirus pandemic represents the culmination of chronic structural weaknesses, years of underinvestment and political rhetoric that has undermined the public trust — conditions compounded by President Trump’s open hostility to a federal bureaucracy that has been called upon to manage the crisis. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2020/politics/government-hollowed-out-weaknesses/