Eyes Wide Shut?

Some would say 20/20 is only available as hindsight.

A poignant anonymous post:



"The western world is inexperienced and unprepared for this, without question.

It’s easy to look back and say, “why didn’t the world anticipate a shortage on masks, temp guns, gowns, face masks, ventilators”, it should have been obvious to people in the WHO, at intelligence, in government departments of health. That’s the problem, its too easy to see it now.
 
We were willingly unprepared and slow to respond. It only further confirms the likely sleepwalking and autopilot response on other serious issues of the world.

The markets became our alter, be damned any truth that should get in her way.

It shouldn’t have been all that hard for the western world to follow the methodology of proven success abroad even so, but we sleep walked through it without taking it seriously.

What the western world instead witnessed and endured was the denial and minimizing of how serious this virus is, and still is even now.

The disconnect between science and politicians is stark.

It’s like we have to see how bad it is first, to react to it only with a fast spreading virus, there’s a 2 week lag on the numbers and with 2 weeks without testing, we can add a zero.

In the U.S. on March 10th, there were 1,000 cases (April 3rd, 272,000).
How many people mocked 1,000 cases as utterly insignificant to warrant a response? “What, we’re going to put air passengers into 14 day quarantines for a 100 to 1,000 cases?” “600, we’re going to shut down entire economies for that”? (Malaysia did. India… Poland, too.)

It took the Republican Gov of Florida 9,000 cases to shut down today and he’s still allowing mass assembly’s(sic) in churches.

In contrast, California Gov Newsom shut down Cali after 700 cases. 

Most of Canada shut down after, what was it, 1500 on March 23rd?
Some provinces went sooner.
These are hard choices to explain to people, the kind of choices that will cost you your career if you are wrong or can’t message it right because of the economic consequences but when one understands the exponential growth potential, attack rate, transmission rate, whatever language works and the test and trace isn’t there to fill in the blanks, these are the hard choices you have to make or health care systems will likely be overwhelmed, more people will die and economically it will only cost us more.

North America’s economic nightmare was baked in as soon as the U.S. CDC tech fail with test kits became reality.

That’s the truth of it.

What’s also just as likely is failure was baked in as soon as Trump was elected.

Only those who belong to political cults can’t see that Trump sucks at this. The May 1st U.S. Corona virus case count will be the easy testament as to why."


And when this ends...
 

anonymous, from internet

Be safe, folks.
Despite whoever may be in government...