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Thanks for sharing a potentially embarrassing opinion. What changed in your thoughts between then and now, what convinced you to change? We can still do a coupl

Thanks for sharing a potentially embarrassing opinion. What changed in your thoughts between then and now, what convinced you to change? We can still do a couple of month shutdown and stop this thing. But there would be more political resistance than ever, because we are stupid as a collective society in america. I'd like to understand what impacted your thinking, maybe we can replicate that in explaining the situation.

sadfev 6y ago
I had more faith in the medical infrastructure of the US and common sense of the populace! How wrong I was! I had no idea how woefully underprepared hospitals were for ANY kind of emergency. Who in the actual world has a coronavirus party? The lack of policing when it came to stop crowds (ironic right?), the strange refusal to wear a mask, the bizzare and blatant apathy. I could list many things but I have to say, the federal and state governments completely dropped the ball when it came to tracing and enforcing quarantine. I was reading how Sweden, Germany and South Korea handled the initial pandemic. Now even the hardest hit countries like Spain and Italy are faring very well. Sweden didn’t close the country at all and relied mostly on voluntary confinement/quarantine though the strategy has been criticized for not protecting elderly but there isn’t a total economic shutdown or untamable level of pandemic. US got the worst of both worlds mass unemployment, screeching slow economy and uncontrollable intensity of pandemic.
- mycall 6y ago
  There is a shared blame to go around to all the science deniers, "news" organizations included.
- salmon30salmon 6y ago
  COVID parties were mostly fabricated. Don't spread FUD. Unless we locked down until there is a vaccine cases would return.