re: #49 A hollow Gandalfian voice says, VOTE, you fools!

Worse than that. Seeing what hit New York, they should have prepared for a nationwide shutdown (together or as individual states), so they’d not get to the point of needing all that.

CA did it — hampered by bad behavior in some (reddish) areas — but even with our setbacks, we’re still able to help other states out.

Trouble is, people everywhere are just getting Covid fatigue. We’ve been sheltering in place for 4 months and nothing has changed. Testing is better, but the hospital where my daughter works still can’t test everyone when they’re admitted to that hospital. Contact tracing is a joke, in part because it’s taking so long to get test results back in some areas that there is no point. States have some responsibility, but without Federal planning and assistance, it’s kind of hopeless. PPE is starting to run low again. A friend of my daughter’s sent her a picture of the bottom of a box of surgical masks provided by Kaiser to their employees* that clearly stated “Not for medical use.”

Some people are in denial, but others have just kind of given up, as far as I can tell.
Mr. C. and I been feeling kind of bad too, but I’m planning on a sit-down with him to come up with a plan to keep us sane for the next 6 months, ‘cause I don’t see an end to this any time soon.

*edit: in this case a doctor, not, say, people in the billing office.