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Sure, it would have originally been rational to try to contain it until widespread vaccination could happen. That was no longer an option as soon as: (a) Trump
by KerrAvon 4y ago
Sure, it would have originally been rational to try to contain it until widespread vaccination could happen. That was no longer an option as soon as:
(a) Trump decided that his followers should treat it by injecting bleach, fish tank cleaner, and horse dewormer
(b) the WHO and the CDC decided it wasn't an airborne disease because apparently they were still relying on research from 1949 C.E.
(c) the CDC decided not to tell Americans that masks were effective (because they didn't want panic buying)
(d) Biden's COVID czar decided to ostrich the whole thing
Now we're just fucked; everyone will get it, the question is how many times and how bad the next variants. And whether we'll ever develop effective treatment for long covid.
- ellopoppit 4y agoThe cat was long already out of the bag at all of those points. There's a small chance it could have been contained in late 2019 when Wuhan doctors were raising the alarm, but they were silenced and punished by Chinese government officials
- SV_BubbleTime 4y ago> (a) Trump decided that his followers should treat it by injecting bleach Never happened. Boy. I sure hope Biden Admin’s misinformation dept gets out there and puts this one to bed.