We should have taken the virus more seriously than we did? Should have stayed locked down longer....should have put a national testing process in place....should have developed contact tracing procedures.....you know, what everyone else in the world did.

For a long time and while we were sheltering in place there were not test. Now there are test and they are doing a lot of them, With more testing now comes more cases of the virus. Is there more cases or just the test that show there is more cases.

Cue the COVID-19 truthers

I do not believe we should have stayed locked down longer. I do, however, believe we should have been told to wear masks from the very beginning, had contact tracing in place, and had testing available a heck of a lot sooner so we'd have more information about the infection rate and fatality rate.

No.

No

No

Ummm check your hospitals, your greatly misinformed, many texas hospitals are at capacity in the icu and extra spaces they can put covid patients, that has NOTHING to do with testing numbers... Its hopitalization numbers

Plenty of early blunders, but it’s absolutely critical what we are doing now, tomorrow, and the days going forward.
It’s not too late to correct the course.

[quote=Ted Dyer]We should have taken the virus more seriously than we did? MAYBE
Should have stayed locked down longer? NO
...should have put a national testing process in place? PROBLY
...should have developed contact tracing procedures? MAYBE
you know, what everyone else in the world did. I don’t give a rats uknowwhat about the rest of the world. Come to think of it the other side of the world perpetrated this upon us.

"Come to think of it the other side of the world perpetrated this upon us."

This, and they are NOT our friends...... think about it . . . . .


DUH ! ! ! ! ! !

Should of had hobos spit in our mouths an get it over with long time ago .

The USA has 4% of the world's population but 25% of the COVID-19 deaths. There's a reason for that. But it's like presenting facts to Flat-Earthers, creationists, and Holocaust deniers. A deeply held belief will not be swayed by facts, data, or any amount of evidence.

Easy to say more testing and contact tracing. How does this realistically take place? Everybody get a test everyday? If I am negative today I could be positive tomorrow. If I test positive do we trace & lock everybody down I came in contact with for 14 days? Do I start testing again everyday if I then test negative after recovering? Where do all the contact tracers come from? Unrealistic?

Maybe we are just being more honest in our reporting than other countries.