Originally Posted by
blueeyes
I don't. Most people wearing a mask do not wear them correctly. It would help but minimally I wouldn't even say significantly. I see nurses on TV that are talking to reporters that pull the mask down below their mouth to talk. Well right there if the outside of that mask was infected now you potentially are. Only good it does in mass use is if a person is sick and they cough with a mask on it keeps most of the droplets contained in that mask. What do they do with it when they get home? Use it again the next day? I hope not, but people do not have brains.
The way to have been prepared for this was:
1. To have had testing in place before the virus hit the US that identified infections and quarantine infected persons.
2. Contact tracing to isolate individuals that came in contact with an infected person..
3. Antibody testing, to determine when they had cleared infection and developed immunity.
4. Scrubbing the shit out of every public place better than they are cleaned currently. I laugh at people that just wipe down the grocery cart with a wipe and think it is good to go. It is not. You need to let a disinfectant fluid sit on the surface for a few minutes. Every cleaning fluid or disinfectant will tell you the contact time needed to adequately clean or disinfect a surface. Know the difference between clean and disinfect. Because the two are not one and the same.
5. Education Education Education on how to wash your hands, keep your hands out of your face, how not to be afraid and panic buy TP of all things and yes how to correctly use a mask. But the mask alone would not have allowed us to continue as normal.
But none of that was in place, and it is too late now. There is no win with our current situation not even two months ago because nothing to fight this virus was in place. Sitting around blaming Trump, China, Democrats, Republicans is useless BS.
Do nothing and let natural selection happen, it still would have incited panic when there was death after death. I think most people find this scenario unfathomable. But it has happened in the past and changed normal, just not in our memorable lifetimes. After this it will happen again, hopefully not in our lifetimes.
Do what we are currently doing shutting down the world and you have a another problem that is pretty unfathomable.
There was no correct choice.
There is no side plot to save trafficked individuals, there is no conspiracy to screw up the election or any other f'ing conspiracy. This wasn't done out of malicious intent. This is not some engineered virus that accidentally escaped. This is random life at its unfairest.
Normal has changed. Find a new normal.