> What I find so crazy about America's response is that it's been totally all over the place with half-measures There also appear to be profound misunderstandi

> What I find so crazy about America's response is that it's been totally all over the place with half-measures There also appear to be profound misunderstandings of how the world works among large swaths of people, from the idea that people will voluntarily do as they are told en masse (downright hilarious to anyone who has any understanding of compliance in healthcare at least in this country); to the notion that falling case rates ~= we have beaten the virus and can resume normal behavior (this all started from a handful of cases); to the notion that messaging doesn't matter (why parrot "masks protect other people from you" when you can truthfully say "masks protect you and others", and why say "young people should be concerned about putting old people at risk" when you can truthfully say "everyone is at risk of life altering complications"?); to the notion that it's acceptable to flip flop on facts for political expendiency without losing credibility; to the idea that concealing data about risk makes people more risk tolerant (it's the opposite); to the idea that John Doe consumer is somehow responsible for global supply chain management instead of governments, manufacturers, vendors, militaries, et al (how is it my responsibility to not buy masks through consumer channels instead of politicians' responsibility to order masks redirected to hospitals?); etc