USA Today editorial board member distraught she can no longer trust government due to COVID-19 management

USA Today editorial board member Jaden Amos is making no secret of her disdain for the government’s handling of the pandemic, declaring in a Monday op-ed she was wrong to assume it would work in the best interest of the American people.

In the op-ed headlined, “I assumed we could trust the government and each other during the pandemic. I was wrong,” a distraught Amos claimed that government institutions had instead worked in the best interest of corporations and had started to give up on fighting the pandemic, causing her to want to give up too.

But I always assumed they’d be more prepared for something like the pandemic. I had hoped that when things took a turn for the worst, we would unite and the government would always act in our best interest.

I was wrong. From @jadenamos: https://t.co/v6E9DEW792

— USA TODAY Opinion (@usatodayopinion) January 10, 2022

“I am not so naive that I blindly trusted the government without any skepticism before 2020 – I am a journalist after all,” Amos wrote. “But I always assumed they’d be more prepared for something like the pandemic. I had hoped that when things took a turn for the worst, we would unite and the government would always act in our best interest.”

“I was wrong,” she said.

Amos wrote that, as a New York City resident, she saw what she claimed were the results of the city government shutting down testing sites ahead of the omicron variant’s surge: “Outrageously long testing lines.”- READ MORE