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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If we can keep everyone's attention on the fight against masks then they will not notice what's really going on.[/quote]

Inflation, Afghanistan, the Ukraine, higher rents, health care disparity,  crappy public school?    That’s what is really going on.  The failure of those promoting masks in areas where the benefits are minimal is just dumb.  I fail to understand why,  2 years in, we continue to force an imperfect remediation  measure on children for whom it has little to no benefit.  [/quote]

I will never get over why keeping schools closed or kids' activities restricted was more important than protecting those most at risk, including workers in factories, warehouses, grocery stores, restaurants, etc. throughout the pandemic. I'm pro-mask, but there is so much more that could have been done to keep low-wage and high-risk workers safer, including testing and providing free high-quality masks. Not only are we more concerned about restrictions on kids than we are protecting the vulnerable, but we use the poor COVID outcomes for the most vulnerable communities as continued justification for school restrictions. [/quote]

What country did you live in??  In this one, we had a completely incompetent president whose administration failed to maintain the national stockpiles of those supplies and deliberately prevented tests from being developed because he didn't want Americans to know the real numbers.  THAT's why we didn't do those things.  There were no masks, there were no tests, there was no leadership.  There was nothing.  Schools had no choice but to close because there were no other options available.  [/quote]

Trump was/is terrible, but he had nothing to do with any of the things you're complaining about.

The strategic national stockpile de-emphasized masks starting in 2009: https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/face-masks-in-national-stockpile-have-not-been-substantially-replenished-since-2009/2020/03/10/57e57316-60c9-11ea-8baf-519cedb6ccd9_story.html

The CDC asserted the sole and exclusive right to develop diagnostic PCR tests in March 2020, put out a test kit that didn't work: https://www.npr.org/2020/11/06/929078678/cdc-report-officials-knew-coronavirus-test-was-flawed-but-released-it-anyway

And the FDA decided that COVID testing was a "medical device" and therefore asserted jurisdiction, forcing research labs all over the country to stop offering their services: https://www.statnews.com/2020/04/15/diagnostic-tests-shortages-fda-decision/

If you think Trump was the only reason the US couldn't get it together with a COVID response, you are letting a whole slew of incompetent, arrogant bureaucrats off the hook. [/quote]

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