It's hard to imagine politicians being so clueless about the country and citizens they are charged with leading that they believed a voluntary quarantine would just work. So they instituted half measure after half measure and kept shifting the goal posts as people shifted where they were congregating until we found ourselves here. And now they HAVE to go all in otherwise they gambled with American jobs and livelihoods for absolutely no reason. And going all in is unlikely to work as well, because we need a cure fast as a full shutdown is unsustainable.
Once again we as citizens are tasked with sacrificing freedoms, bearing the brunt of economic meltdown and expected to accept the failings of government. All while test kits apparently could have been in production all this time and the mass shutdowns completely avoided had our government just done its fucking job. I honestly can't tell if this is incompetence, or if this is political protection of corporate interests because money talks and greed has no remorse. It's probably a mix of both.
The American people have been failed, and heads should roll. But something tells me people are going to toe party lines and fuel the bottomless chasm that partisan politics has become. After all our President is nothing more than a talking head TV personality with no political experience who thinks he's doing a good job with this unmitigated disaster. And the entire democratic party is filled with cowards who prefer fear mongering and hand-wringing to policy creation and actual political reform. We have no good options.
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