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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
There is no "we" here. Certain areas here have experienced wide community spread. Others have not.
I'm right next two two of the biggest hotbeds of Covid when it first appeared. Our governor imposed a strong lockdown and life here has pretty much gone on with minimal interruption (even during the lockdown).
Florida, OTOH, chose a different path, and, well... we know how that worked.
We were never going to be able to contact trace adequately in a country this large. China was only able to do it because it's authoritarian and could control its population within the cities where the virus appeared.
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We were never going to be able to do it because our leadership didn't even try to deal with this.
Yes, timing was going to vary be state. There was zero reason for response criteria to do so as well. Actual leadership would have avoided Florida and Sturgis being cross-border super spreaders, but the coward in the White House thought he would be better off trying to avoid accountability.
Yes, our size and diversity makes it a much bigger task, and we may still have not done very well, but we - meaning our federal leadership - did not try.
