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.

What we didn’t do in CA was wait until ubiquitous testing and contact tracing capability was in place before starting to open anything. That was the whole point of the shutdown. Even California basically flushed 3 months down the toilet for nothing.

We just had a few more people taking it seriously is all.

Yes I know this was mostly Trump’s fault, but we should have just stayed shutdown and explained *exactly* why we were.

I think part of the problem was not clearly explaining to everyone from the average person, to county governments what exactly the point of the shutdown was and how long it would actually take. They were literally saying “shutdown for 2-3 weeks” in some places back in March like that was realistic. I told everyone I know back then: “Don’t make any plans before July, and probably none before the end of the year”. Many thought I was overreacting.