In my layman's opinion, these are the three biggest blunders we made dealing with the CCP Virus, and who I feel bears the blame:
1. Excessive use of ventilators early on in the pandemic. Unbeknownst to medical personnel, even though the CCP Virus acted like other respiratory ailments, using ventilators on the CCP Virus, unlike those others did more harm than good. We'll probably never know how many people who might otherwise have survived perished due to damage the ventilator did to their lungs. It was more than a few, a lot more. There's a reason we stopped hearing about ventilator shortages fairly early on. But the blame? Nobody. How were doctors supposed to know until they found out. I think it's unfair to blame the doctors who treated similar symptoms in a similar fashion to detrimental effects. How could they have been expected to know? I think it's unfair to accuse them for this blunder.
2. Public officials from both parties encouraged people to go out and shop, go to restaurants, parades, etc., until well into March. At that time they still didn't fully grasp the communicability of this virus. They were still going on bad "not transmissible from person to person" information. As it became clearer and clearer that this was really bad scoop, one by one cities, states, and our Federal Government all changed their tunes. But initially, that was not the premise they went by. I blame the Communist Chinese government and their loyal sycophants at the World Health Organization for this. The Chinese coverup, aided and abetted by the WHO got us off on the wrong footing altogether. A little transparency in fall of or late 2019 would have gone a long way to help us fight this thing better earlier on in 2020 when it was KNOWN to have reached our shores.
3. The third and by no means least of the blunders has to be the deadly Nursing Home blunder. Fearing a massive shortage of hospital beds, officials put CCP Virus patients into nursing homes alongside our most vulnerable elderly citizens. In New York City, the Federal Government set up a field hospital in Central Park, another at the Javits Center, and sailed a hospital ship into the harbor to augment local medical facilities and staffs. In my estimation, by that time the New York governments, City and State, were convinced they'd use all the hospital beds, all the nursing home beds, and all the temporary hospitals the Federal Government set up and STILL might run out of space. Well, they were wrong. And I think it is a fair question to ask, why didn't they use the Federal beds as the first overflow and hold the nursing homes in reserve, rather than the other way around? Well, it is easy for political reasons to blame Cuomo, as I have read from many. I think that may be unfair. As in #2, first I lay blame on the Communist Chinese, it was their withholding information that had New York scrambling in the dark. What I don't know is, were the nursing homes seeking those patients for financial gains, as there were incentives for having CCP Virus cases. If it was the corporate greed of these organizations that wanted patients BEFORE the Federal beds were used, then shame on and blame on them. It was no doubt a massive blunder, but to me too easy to blame Governor Cuomo and overlook the Chinese government. I strongly suspect the corporate greed was a major factor, but I haven't seen or read specific stories that give evidence that this impacted patient location prioritization.
So those are the three biggies if you ask me. This has been a learn as you go exercise. And if you ask me, if you're blaming Fauci and politicians left and right, but not pointing a finger at the Chinese, you're doing it wrong.
Masks, closures, and Hydroxychloroquin are the three runners up, but in my opinion, not to the extent of these three.
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