While heroes abound during this pandemic, here are some obvious villains: SARS-CoV-2 is the name of the virus causing the disease, COVID-19. China:  after all, it started there, and they initially tried to keep it under wraps.  While still controversial, speculation indicates that the 1918 Spanish Flu also originated in China .  But this was the H1N1 virus, which is linked to pigs .  This virus also caused the next most recent pandemic in 2009-10, called the Swine Flu, which first began in Mexico . President Donald Trump.  If he took any kind of precaution to combat this pandemic by using the Defense Production Act to first focus on rapid tests and personal protective equipment, and promote mask-wearing, you wonder if the USA could have gone the way of South Korea.  Both nations experienced its first COVID-19 death at the same time.  Trump is also responsible for the attitudes expressed by Republican governors and congresspeople. Scott Atlas, coronavirus advisor to Donald Trump.  He ca

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