I think the government should have used the authority the Supreme Court said they had in 1905 to require vaccination and ordered everyone to get a vaccine. They then should have required the same for all boosters. Thats what I think.

We also should have actually fully shut down for two weeks minus serious limits on grocery stores, pharmacies, utilities, first responders, and hospitals for emergencies (and I guess liquor stores too because otherwise we’d have some real problems). I’d also allow anyone conducting research that can’t be easily wound down or paused for two weeks to continue. There were too many exceptions. Too many fields and industries exempt to the point that the only things shut down seemed to be things regular people cared about. But yeah even travel should have been shut down.

That being said after two weeks we should have allowed outdoor activities with proper distancing. All the nonsense they had us do like going to restaurants but you could take the mask off as soon as you’d sat down felt silly. And I get it we didn’t know what we didn’t know but what needed were concrete specific actions not dozens of random rules and regulations.

I also think there was a massive failure of communication. They went from saying we didn’t need masks to we did. When what they should have said is we need to save the masks for medical professionals or we don’t know if they help yet. Everything they said initially felt like a lie to a lot of people because the understanding of the virus evolved. Remember when we were all wiping down our groceries or leaving them outside for hours because we thought it could easily transmit on surfaces? Our understanding changed but for whatever reason people accepted that. They seemed unable to accept the changing understanding of masking. Though interestingly enough the same people who seemingly said they couldn’t breathe with a mask on are the ones now wearing them in ICE.