04-19-2020, 12:34 PM
A big problem was our inability to mobilize.
It wasn't until the nursing home tragedy in WA that the powers that be really took this seriously, it seems. I sometimes wonder if we (as a country and not as anyone related to those unfortunate family and staff) were lucky that it was something as optically jarring as a nursing home event as opposed to say, an industry conference, where fatalities may not have been so pronounced, that was the early event. Otherwise, it might have been at least a week if not two before the action timeline really started moving. And that kind of delay, as BC points out, would likely have meant many many more cases.
It wasn't until the nursing home tragedy in WA that the powers that be really took this seriously, it seems. I sometimes wonder if we (as a country and not as anyone related to those unfortunate family and staff) were lucky that it was something as optically jarring as a nursing home event as opposed to say, an industry conference, where fatalities may not have been so pronounced, that was the early event. Otherwise, it might have been at least a week if not two before the action timeline really started moving. And that kind of delay, as BC points out, would likely have meant many many more cases.