Originally Posted by
Ca_Silvia13
When this outbreak started in Europe why wasn't this determined in the weeks leading up to the outbreak in NA? What were the infectious disease researchers in Europe looking in to during that time? That's my point. Why make a bunch of public health orders based on unproven research?
A lot of people are now realizing this was no big deal unless you're 70+ or pre-existing health conditions. I just don't understand why knowledge learned in the early days from other parts of the world was not taken in to account with the decision making process here. Parts of Europe had it over a month before we got anything here. I truly don't understand, even more now that the US has had 10+ days of rioting and protests. Should there not have a massive explosion of COVID cases? We are at the symptomatic threshold now.
I believe people making bad decisions based on bad data is a failure. I'm not sure how that's a positive otherwise.