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> It's crystal clear that the US is doing something wrong. And if that's the reality, then we need to figure out how to move forward from there. We can't go ba

> It's crystal clear that the US is doing something wrong. And if that's the reality, then we need to figure out how to move forward from there. We can't go back to March and convince everyone to do a better job of shelter in place. We followed all the rules in my family. It was, in my opinion, a waste of time. I'm not going to hide in a hole for fear of the damn boogey man for the next three years.

AlexandrB 6y ago
> We can't go back to March and convince everyone to do a better job of shelter in place. Apparently it's impossible to convince Americans to do a better job of anything. So "moving forward from here" is going to be just as incompetent and half-assed as shelter in place was. Apparently no one in power has learned a thing, hence this article.
- AnimalMuppet 6y ago
  It's not just those in power. Too few people in the populace learned that they really needed to follow heath guidelines like this was serious. Without that, the people in power can't do too much. And why do many people not take the guidelines seriously? Partly it's because of the fumbling and incompetent response to Covid, but it's not just that. Government/political leadership has been setting their credibility on fire for a decade or several. (To be clear: It's not just this president, it's not just this administration, and it's not just one party.) They've been too busy trying to win at political trench warfare to actually govern, and the people have noticed. Too often, neither reason nor competence have been on display. So when it actually matters, nobody is willing to listen to the politically-driven clown show, because it's probably just more of the same. (And, to some degree, it was.) So "moving forward" will require rebuilding trust in government. People need to trust that policy will be competent and (at least in something like this) not set by politics. That's going to take a decade or several to rebuild.

AlexandrB 6y ago

> We can't go back to March and convince everyone to do a better job of shelter in place. Apparently it's impossible to convince Americans to do a better job of anything. So "moving forward from here" is going to be just as incompetent and half-assed as shelter in place was. Apparently no one in power has learned a thing, hence this article.

AnimalMuppet 6y ago
It's not just those in power. Too few people in the populace learned that they really needed to follow heath guidelines like this was serious. Without that, the people in power can't do too much. And why do many people not take the guidelines seriously? Partly it's because of the fumbling and incompetent response to Covid, but it's not just that. Government/political leadership has been setting their credibility on fire for a decade or several. (To be clear: It's not just this president, it's not just this administration, and it's not just one party.) They've been too busy trying to win at political trench warfare to actually govern, and the people have noticed. Too often, neither reason nor competence have been on display. So when it actually matters, nobody is willing to listen to the politically-driven clown show, because it's probably just more of the same. (And, to some degree, it was.) So "moving forward" will require rebuilding trust in government. People need to trust that policy will be competent and (at least in something like this) not set by politics. That's going to take a decade or several to rebuild.