The solution is obvious, and we’re shooting ourselves in the foot

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somethingclevereh on July 8th, 2020 at 16:50 UTC »

Exactly.

Also in case anyone thinks this is just Japan, this is also true of so many other countries. South Korea only had 300 deaths total, and their first case occurred on the same day as the first case in the US.

kklove2001 on July 8th, 2020 at 17:13 UTC »

But but... Trump says the US is the world leader on Coronavirus handling.

2drums1cymbal on July 8th, 2020 at 17:25 UTC »

It’s astonishing to me that Trump could have all but sealed his re-election, saved thousands of lives and the economy if he hadn’t been such a petulant little shit about all of this. His followers take everything he says as gospel. Imagine if he had just said “wear a mask” from the jump.

EDIT: A lot of people making the argument about "but the CDC told us not to wear masks at one point!!?!!" and yea, that was true at the time and they saw new evidence and changed their stance. Guess what, OTHER COUNTRIES ALSO CHANGED THEIR STANCE ON MASKS AND MOST ARE FINE BECAUSE THEY FOLLOWED THE SCIENCE. My point is if Trump had just listened to medical experts from the get-go, we would've controlled the pandemic and he'd be coasting to re-election right now.