The timing of COVID-19 was almost perfect. The impeachment acquittal was now finished, the Trump purge was underway, and we were settling into a very normal fascist dictatorship. Then came COVID-19.
So many world governments didn't learn the lessons on the Spanish Flu. Iran lied about how hard they were being hit. It exploded there in early March. The first deaths started happening in early March in the US as well. There was no credible plan for quarantine or containment.
When it exploded in North America, it was with a bright flash across the continent, with very little slow burn leading up to it. With the glaring incompetence of the administration in full display, panic was really the only logical course of action.
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