The fact is that the the resources were
not available for "targeted lockdowns" nor were there enough PPE for such along with the fact that not only was there no vaccine / no approved therapeutic drug...
- The United States needed to do a full lockdown to get prepared and then it screw that up via making Covid-19 a political thing that was more important than Covid-19 as a health crisis.
They then re-open when they
thought they were prepared.
Today there is such and they're better prepared because they know more about Covid-19, more PPE is available for front line workers and many companies working on a vaccine. Also, there's now emergency therapeutic drugs for Covid-19 severe illness cases.
- The above was not available in the beginning for the United States in this Pandemic.
Look at it this way, some countries were ready (e.g South Korea) and others like the United States were
not ready. It really is simple as that.
Instead of playing hindsight analysis about a situation the United States was not ready to manage due to poor leadership from the Trump administration...
- I don't know anything about your beaches in San Diego. For example, are people over crowing the beaches, not social distancing or being reckless ?
If so...shut the damn thing down to protect the community...called
targeted lockdown so that the rest of the businesses in San Diego can stay open.
Yet, if your livelihood is on the San Diego beach such as a cafe, restaurant or any other business that's dependent upon tourist / people to go to the beach where your business / job is located at...
Makes sense to be mad at your Governor that's threatening to shut it down when people are not being socially responsible. Yet, don't lose site for the reason of the shut down by your Governor because people are fucking up in San Diego instead of being responsible.
- Then again, you do not wear a face mask. Thus, the Governors threat may be appropriate if there's many people like you using the San Diego beaches and not socially distancing.
Once again, Covid-19 is a new disease in a country that was not prepared while other countries were prepared. That's the primary reason why you can't use the South Korea model nor Sweden model.
By the way, South Korea has low numbers (better than Sweden) because they have better leadership at the top, a culture already use to wearing face masks because of pollution problems and a healthcare system suitable to managing diseases like Covid-19 so that they were able to keep their country open...
avoiding a lockdown.
- Stop bitching and move to Sweden or South Korea.
I lived in South Korea for a few years...I enjoyed life there.
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