Some of it is the fog of war. I said when this started it will be years until we analyze all the data and figure out the statistics/characteristics on this virus. Despite the derision I got for saying that Instill stand by it. Books will be written a decade from now on the virus, it’s spread, and the way it was handled
The other part of it is clearly political. Every congress critter and petty tyrant in state and local government is trying to leverage the situation to their best advantage. It’s disgusting
I agree about the fog of war and I would add to that that a lot of what we “knew” early on was based on the lies coming out of China. Then it hit Italy and a big bucket of reality hit us hard. We were trending about two weeks behind Italy in terms of hospitalizations and deaths rising and we watched in horror as people in Italy were dying in the hallways of packed hospitals.
The contrast of what China claimed versus what we witnesses in Italy was both terrifying and confusing. Hopefully the books written on this whole thing will properly eviscerate the lying Chinese communists for their role in keeping everyone blind to the threat until it was already killing people. They could have warned the world and they should have done so. They decided instead to continue their usual tactic of lying to everyone for their own advantage. We should NOT be doing business with those liars.
Great response!