11-10-2022, 04:29 PM
(11-10-2022, 03:14 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(11-10-2022, 01:47 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Knowledge in an emergency is almost never perfect. We certainly overdid the stuff on cleaning wipes, as the COVID-19 virus has been shown to have a short lifetime on inanimate surfaces. See also HIV. Much of the analogy for COVID-19 was HIV, and that proved a very flawed analogue.
We do the best with what we have.
I think we did a terrible job tbh, but we did much, much better than the draconian nonsense all across Europe and, especially, Australia (armed guards patroling the streets, helicopters looking for people who were out in the woods rather than at home, requirements to text the police with your location....insane shit I would have thought was impossible in the West just a few months prior).
And no-one thought such a terrible contagion was going to happen in The West.