The final straw in Cuomo’s poor pandemic response 03 Feb 2021 The Independent American deaths from the pandemic — 443,000 and rising — hover between the 418,500 in the Second World War and an estimated 620,000 in the US Civil War. By spring, the death toll could exceed the latter — the bloodiest conflict in American history — and become our single largest conflagration in over two centuries. Let’s be blunt: The pandemic in America is a humanitarian catastrophe of monumental proportions and further proof US infrastructure and society are in third-world disrepair. In his insurrection-inciting farewell tour, the former president claimed falsely to be the first modern president to not start a new war. The statement is untrue. The Trump administration’s pandemic neglect effectively waged a war on the American people.