I understand those who are looking to blame one person or one thing for the COVID crisis. Lives have been upended, and they want someone or something to pay. However, COVID has shown itself to be too big for a world of nearly 8 billion to fix.
That is not to say there is no blame to around. For me, the blames lies in the response. Millions of Americans were told by their local and state governments their jobs were not essential. Businesses were shut without trying to think of ways to keep them open. People panicked and raided grocery stores. You had hundred of people together spreading COVID in the early going. The unemployment systems could not handle the load.
And what did New York do? They put sick elderly people with COVID into nursing homes. How many people did that end up infecting and killing?
I'm a Marylander. Yumi Hogan, the wife of our governor was able to orchestrate a deal getting Maryland $9 milllion worth of test kits from her native country of South Korea. The tests were incomplete.
Overall, we are relying on a bad testing system. Tests are treated as Gospel despite the amounts of false positives and negatives. Ohio's Governor DeWitt tested positive only for it be revealed as a false positive. Most people with false tests are not in line to be tested continually like a politician.
Let's not forget Pelois and her famous hair styling sans mask. Then she has the nerve to say she was set up. Nobody forced you to go to a salon, Nancy.
Certainly there are going to be written about the CDC's and the WHO's poor response. On the subject of the CDC, they said that COVID-positive people could vote in person.
I could go on, but I will go with one last thing. Governments did not take into account caution fatigue was going to happen. They just assumed people were going to act a certain way.