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Originally Posted by Arles
I think the two biggest things were testing - and that's something no government got right (or knew to even prepare for, to be fair) and wearing masks. We can have the most buttoned up state/federal system for this with tons of PPE, early warnings from other countries, shelter in place, travel bans, etc. But the biggest issue we had from March on was people not knowing/caring they were carrying the virus and giving it to a bunch of different people.
There are people that just don't give a F*ck and that's why we will always have some propagation of the virus. There are 20-year old kids that went to Mardi Gras and then, without a mask, stood by a 75-year old woman in walgreens. There are people who rushed to beaches in Florida without masks and then visited their parents. Here in AZ, I have a friend who works in the Casino (with a mask) and he said he saw over 100 60+ year old people enter just yesterday without a mask. You can have all the plans you want - but these situations are what take it down. So, the focus needs to be on really educating people on using masks (if not mandating it in certain places) and be able to ramp up test production quickly moving forward. People are going to not listen and be idiots, but if we can test them on a bigger scale - the kids that get Covid at Mardi Gras can know and atleast avoid their grandparents for 14 days.Those are the lessons I hope we learn from this.
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Well when the president says it's a hoax, how are citizens to take it seriously?
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