I'm a Californian living in Melbourne too, and I rather be here than the US. Yes, the federal government killed almost 200,000. There still isn't a strategy for Covid nor the economy and people seem to completely misunderstand economics. The American people are the economy and consumer confidence is lost as people fear returning to large crowds, etc.

It's bad in the US because as Australia was preparing mass production of tests, the US still doesn't have enough test nor bothered to trace infections to their source to shutdown the spread. FEMA confiscated supplies after Trump ordered the governors to do business and negotiate for their own for PPE.

Morrison is responsible for the Aged Care deaths. Definitely. A federal plan forgot to care for our most vulnerable, but this is the Neoliberal way. Only people with wealth matter.