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sinkingfeeling's JournalMakes you ask why the hell we even bother.' Infectious disease experts face disillusionment as COVID
-19 pandemic worsens.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2020/12/04/nation/makes-you-ask-why-hell-we-even-bother-infectious-disease-experts-face-disillusionment-covid-19-pandemic-worsens/?outputType=amp&__twitter_impression=true
At almost every step of this pandemic, we have failed magnificently as a country, the Harvard scientist said Monday. And in ways that we just really didnt need to fail.
The country, and in particular this city, are home to some of the greatest public health experts in the world, many of whom have spent their careers preparing for a crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic.
Im just astounded by the dysfunction, the willingness to just stay the course as hundreds of thousands of people die, and the unwillingness to innovate in literally any way, said Mina, an assistant professor of epidemiology at Harvards T.H. Chan School of Public Health, who has been advocating for widespread at-home rapid antigen testing since March, with little success. Ive realized that when we need to rise up as a country, we have truly no moral capacity to do it. Its just the most mind-bending, complete Twilight Zone experience that makes you ask why the hell we even bother.
I have a glimmer of hope....
Best proof that it was Trump who messed up and not China's fault.
https://twitter.com/JeremyKonyndyk/status/1241592039281655808I don't know how to 'unroll' the rest, but read through it. He takes each important date and documents how US failed to act.
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