The Covid-19 Info thread (keep politics out please)

[dawgday166]

There's no debate. Had we started social distancing earlier, there would've been fewer people infected and fewer deaths. We also would've come out of the first wave more quickly and saved more resources for future waves. It would've also given us more time (started earlier & healthcare systems wouldn't have been overwhelmed so suddenly) to begin researching treatments and vaccines. This was a massive failure by our leaders. We knew the impacts. Knew what was coming. Knew we couldn't defeat it. And we ignored it because we were worried about the stock market taking a hit and the impacts on the coming election. It's criminal.

As I've said before ... Both sides of the aisle missed on this. And you might argue we as a country (Obama did it too) do things to prop up the stock market. But this ain't about that. It ain't easy and there are some difficult trade offs to consider before you tell the majority of the country to just go home and sit on their ass for 2 or 3 months. Of course dano would love it if only he had UBI *****

Trump really acted before anyone on the other side was ready to act themselves. I am not a personal fan of Trump's but he was ahead of Pelosi, Cuomo, etc.

ETA: Oh, and BTW, there is that little thingy called The Constitution that makes things like this somewhat difficult to address also. Unless of course you prefer true dictatorships ... but that may also be the case ONLY IF your guy is the dictator.