@Helen3 "As you know many countries (apart from the US it seems) have heeded advice from healthcare experts and have put their countries in lock down to help halt the spread of the virus."
First of all, let me make clear I am no apologist for the current Federal administration. They could have done a lot of things so much better.
But realize the US is a very big country. It is not managed by one government. Each State has its own government, alongside the Federal government, which is an assembly of State representatives.
Many State governments actually have stay-at-home orders in place, in the whole state or worst-affected areas. Mainly areas which are largely urban. On the advice of the scientists. Areas which are largely rural are not, at the moment, demonstrating a large number of cases, for the simple reason that people live pretty far apart anyway. We do expect that the big cities in the rural areas will start to see a rapid increase in number of cases, and since many rural hospitals have closed, I expect they will soon be facing resource shortages just like the larger urban areas.
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/us/coronavirus-stay-at-home-order.html
Our State government has been awesome, as have other State governments. They have been honest, some would say brutally honest, listened to the scientists, and have been well prepared. They even ran a simulation of this very scenario in September of last year, identified some issues, which they have remedied. The Federal government also sent participants to this exercise. We've all seen how prepared they are.