The problem is we tried to have our cake and eat it too

Posted on: July 9, 2020 at 15:04:27 CT

Shutdowns were inconsistent and nonsensical. We tried to shut down but then in some cases never really did. Reopening was similar. There was never a plan or end game. Everything became reactive and political.

For example, you could still pack into Lowe's and Home Depot for garden products, then go to the liquor store. But children can't play on playgrounds and god forbid people want to go to church. Then cities packed with people protesting were on TV with no one criticizing it. So people just moved on. The "science" has never had any credibility because it became political and you ended up with 2 very different schools of thought. And that's just the nature of Americans these days anyway.

In countries succeeding now (Sweden, New Zealand, Germany, etc), they had a unified plan and just went with it. Sweden never closed anything and kind of just let the virus run its natural course. New Zealand fully shut down for 49 days, closed the borders, and literally just eliminated the virus.

Simply shutting down a nation of 330 million with the diversity of thought and lifestyle we have in this one was never realistic. The virus was always going to just need to run its course here and we're not letting that happen, and will therefore be in this shut down/reopen pattern until there is a vaccine or the virus is gone.