COVID radicalized me.
I have long thought that American institutions were in various states of decline and needed to be revitalized. I was wrong. American institutions are rotten to their core. Tens of thousands of people will die, if we are lucky.
A functioning government could have prevented the crisis, as Singapore, Hong Kong, and Taiwan have demonstrated. Aggressive testing and early social distancing kept their caseloads low and limited exponential growth. South Korea showed how testing could be quickly ramped up, limiting the damage of large clusters discovered late. Even if containment had become impossible, there was plenty of time for America to ramp up production of PPE, respirators, and hospital beds.
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