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Originally Posted by ASU Diablo
Vaccines can take anywhere from 12-18 months. Things are not looking good and the projections actually state 100-200K deaths. Wtf is this administration doing? How did we get here? So sad and scary
I hope people weren’t actually planning on going out on Easter Sunday
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Let me preface by saying I didn't vote for Trump and I wouldn't vote for Trump.
Pinning this on the administration is the cop-out. This should be pinned on the American lifestyle and arrogance of the general population. We live in a country built on "me first" and "what do I get?" so telling people they can't go out doesn't work. Look at Californians flooding beaches, look at Phoenicians flooding hiking trails and parks (I live on the Bridle Path and it's shoulder to shoulder on the weekends), look at people flat-out unwilling to give up going to church. The orders are there to stay home. People aren't listening. The threat to quarantine New York was met with pure resistance. I read a nice piece from New York Post, an admittedly conservative publication, that enumerated all of the things the federal government is doing and trying to do and pointed out the ways in which it turns into fighting.
They traced the huge outbreaks in Italy and Spain back to a football match. The US doesn't have any sports going on.
Sweden is doing nothing and it's going to hell in a hand-basket.
The USA was designed to operate mostly on a state to state level, that's what people want. Now the administration is letting them operate that way and is taking heat for it, this is very much a damned if you do and damned if you don't predicament for the administration.
Like him or not, Trump and his friends are faced with a lot of very difficult decisions and are navigating a windy road with no GPS or even a map. They've outperformed some countries responses and they've fallen short of others. NYC is one of the most densely populated cities in the world and it should be a surprise to no one they're having a huge issue. A good friend, and his family, live in NYC and I'm nervous for them. There is no decision anyone in government can make that will make them less vulnerable. This is an unprecedented issue that no one in the world was prepared for. I drove by Lux this morning on my way into the office, plenty of people sitting on the picnic benches drinking coffee and enjoying their time together. You think that's not the issue we have? Easier to blame government, I suppose.
At the end of this when we look back and stop making knee-jerk assumptions and reactions, we may find that every decision was right and we may find that every decision was wrong. NOW is not the time to fight over the quality of decisions that were already made, now is the time to put that garbage aside and unify.