[KerrAvon]

Sure, it would have originally been rational to try to contain it until widespread vaccination could happen. That was no longer an option as soon as:

(a) Trump decided that his followers should treat it by injecting bleach, fish tank cleaner, and horse dewormer (b) the WHO and the CDC decided it wasn't an airborne disease because apparently they were still relying on research from 1949 C.E. (c) the CDC decided not to tell Americans that masks were effective (because they didn't want panic buying) (d) Biden's COVID czar decided to ostrich the whole thing

Now we're just fucked; everyone will get it, the question is how many times and how bad the next variants. And whether we'll ever develop effective treatment for long covid.

[ellopoppit]

The cat was long already out of the bag at all of those points.

There's a small chance it could have been contained in late 2019 when Wuhan doctors were raising the alarm, but they were silenced and punished by Chinese government officials

[SV_BubbleTime]

> (a) Trump decided that his followers should treat it by injecting bleach

Never happened.

Boy. I sure hope Biden Admin’s misinformation dept gets out there and puts this one to bed.