Do you really think it is insulting considering the pandemic response has been really bad. The extent to which the whole event is politicized which directly caused deaths of thousands of people every day is just mind baffling. The misinformation spread deliberately by the top leaders and their follower just to strengthen their power can hardly be called as "unintentional".

Just imagine the US had declared a "War on Covid" and initiated a global mass vaccination campaign, rallying its allies to either be "with us or against us" in the fight against the pandemic, using the emergency powers to shift national production towards vaccines and PPE and distributing them throughout the nation and globally to developing countries and disparaging allies who were unwilling to follow suit. Heck, we might have even avoided Delta, let alone whatever the new one is called.

Instead all we got was 60 words in 2001 followed by that lousy PATRIOT Act, two decades of drone strikes, several case studies in failed nation building, and then for Covid a president pushing ineffective treatments and ridiculing medical experts.

Yes, it's insulting. But not because it's untrue but because it's hurtful.

At least this time it really was an inside job, hundreds of thousands could still be alive.