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The govt. response ‘failed’ in so much as it is prescribed goals that each citizen is free to prescribe.

The curve has been flattened from the peak. Without a vaccine, all models point to >50% of people getting infected. Vaccines are not for sure going to even exist. The only known short-term vaccine is surviving covid.

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The government response in the USA might have failed. The response by by other governments [TW/NZ/ROK/JP] are keeping the virus under control without a vaccine, and if we had a national mask mandate along with a new CCC-like program for contract tracers then we could also have much less than 50% infection.

However Trump will probably be re-elected, Obamacare will be overturned with a new SCOTUS pick when RBG dies in a couple months, and corporations will get immunity to COVID lawsuits from employees. Just my prediction.

Aerosol transmission is leading cause for indoor superspreader event, ergo N95 masks are required when someone is indoors for an extended period of time.

The govt. response failure is from the fact we weren’t making N95s at full production for the past decade plus to prepare for this.

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