Covid-19 triage strategy?

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It's really peak American liberalism to blame individual sin or whatever for the ballooning Covid cases rather than the policymakers, D and R, who have consistently made terrible choices. From denying that masks work initially, to refusing stimulus for Americans perched on the edge, our government has consistently made choices which the crisis worse rather than better. Ask why you have to triage.

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It's really peak American liberalism to blame individual sin or whatever for the ballooning Covid cases rather than the policymakers, D and R, who have consistently made terrible choices. From denying that masks work initially, to refusing stimulus for Americans perched on the edge, our government has consistently made choices which the crisis worse rather than better. Asky why you have to triage.

It’s mostly the R’s but aside from that, I agree.

I would support a lot of current office holders losing their jobs and being shunned by society for as long as they live, and that’s being nice.

I'd argue that a fair of D governors have biffed the pandemic pretty hard as well--see Andrew Cuomo for example, who pulled off one of the biggest PR coups of all time while shunting Covid patients into nursing homes--thereby condemning the residents, as anyone could have predicted, to certain infection.

That's ignoring the many local officials who did things like, say, permit indoor dining while making school online. I'm not actually against online school but education is way more important that eating at a restaurant.

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Ultimately, people make decisions about this stuff based on what their leaders tell them--nobody knows much about public health or epidemiology. I don't think it's right to personally blame, say, a person in South Dakota who's just listening to their governor and president who they voted for.

The people who you hold responsible shouldn't be everyday people--they should be the policy makers who ceded their duty to stem the pandemic to individual choice.