Success is in the eye of the beholder 

To the Editor;

On Sunday (March 29), President Donald Trump said that if the United States can keep the death toll down to 100,000, “we all together have done a very good job.” I pray we can do much better than that.

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, also stated Sunday that the death toll could rise to 200,000. I have to wonder why and how a country like ours with a population of 327 million (one fourth that of China) could have a death toll of between 100,000 and 200,000, while China’s with a population of more than 1.3 billion had a reported death toll of approximately 3,300. Why may the death toll of the U.S. be 30 to 60 times that of China?

I’m sure there are several rational explanations. The most obvious to me is this: ineptitude, incompetence and inaction at the highest level of our government.

Ronald Sweet 

Exeter