Its only defeatist if you give up. And that's effectively what our leadership has done; keep screeching about masks and vaccinations, some listen, some don't, a

Its only defeatist if you give up. And that's effectively what our leadership has done; keep screeching about masks and vaccinations, some listen, some don't, and nothing changes. The curve keeps oscillating. Ok; recognize that. Pivot. If the best solution won't work, then it isn't the best solution; continuing to believe so is like standing on the Titanic as its going down and yelling "god damn it just don't hit the iceberg, its so simple, just turn left." Its not helpful toward driving positive outcomes, and that's what matters. Its what happens when you let scientists and doctors run the show; they present fantastic solutions which work in the lab, if everyone does them, perfectly. The population is not a programmable computer. What's the problem right now? Medical care capacity. What's the best way to solve that? Keep people out of the hospital. That isn't working. Stop doubling down. We need to keep medical professionals in the system, and encourage new ones to join. Pass federal laws limiting the number of patients nurses are responsible for. Supplement medical professional income with tax dollars. Create incentives for retired professionals to come back into the fray, and younger people to stay in the pipeline to join the field. Deploy the military to hard-hit areas. Embrace more easily accessible, quicker trade-skill like training for COVID-care specialist to manpower-supplement existing hospital forces, working underneath more highly trained professionals. There are many things we could do, but we're not doing much of them.