Some mistaken policy choices: * Not requiring masks at workplaces or schools once seated (common in many areas) * Not aiming for ventilation and denying aeros

Some mistaken policy choices: * Not requiring masks at workplaces or schools once seated (common in many areas) * Not aiming for ventilation and denying aerosol spread * Denying asymptomatic and presymptomatic spread. Giving health/testing advice mainly based on symptoms * Not using and blocking rapid tests * Not scaling testing capacity with cases Japan had a more coherent approach on some of these with their three C’s approach: avoid closed spaces, crowded rooms, and close contact. The West generally just emphasized the latter. (The west did have capacity limits, but only to space people out within rooms, not for aerosols)