â60 days into the coronavirus crisis, the White House does not have a plan, a framework, a philosophy, or a goal.â
This is a pretty personal issue to me, as South Korea came up with a pretty effective strategy for dealing with all of this, but the United States of America? Nada. I mean, we used to be a respected, principled country, who other countries looked up to for leadership. And now? Weâre a Reality TV Show.
And so okay, âStaying @ Homeâ and âSocial Distancingâ is helping to curb the infection rate, but whatâll happen if we do NOTHING ELSE and then just send everybody back out to work and pretend itâs all fixed? Obviously an upward spike of infections will be in our not too distant future.
So, I contacted Senators Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray and asked them, âWhy are we not doing what South Korea is doing?â Senator Cantwell responded with how hard theyâre working about getting more testing, but I was pleased to see in the news later that Governor Inslee in his published phased response is trying to incorporate some South Korean methodology.
Okay good, but this really shouldnât be a state by state thing. And with no state to state travel restrictions, it wonât work.
So, until thereâs some more actions or plans, hereâs what Iâm expecting: We had a Pandemic in 1918, which was apparently associated with WWI soldiers having to hang out in water filled trenches for long periods of time. There was no vaccine, and its run was about a full year before infected people either died, or recovered and developed antibodies.
By my count, using Insleeâs Social Distancing Order as a starting point, weâre 58 Days in, and âjustâ 307 days to go.