I also really, really don't want the Democratic Party's takeaway from COVID to be "we should be less cautious", because I remember what April and May of 2020 were like in NYC, the epicenter of the outbreak. It was worse than anyone else in America could understand.
I feel like I'm taking crazy pills reading these people's completely ahistorical takes.
The way ppl have rewritten history they've lived through is insane. PA only closed schools during the last few months of the 2019-20 year, any further closures were up to locals. Even had a normal fall 2020 football season. Ppl believe to this day that schools were closed for years.
I was in Manhattan Hotel March 12 '20. Epicenter New Rochelle then everywhere. Hotel was empty. Elevator came to my floor and went to lobby, up and down. Gave me top floor corner room. I knew then that It was bad because everyone had cancelled but me. Maid had tray of chemicals. Made it out in time.
You realize many people were so annoyed they couldn’t go to places that they have suppressed the memory or outright ignored it and still think nothing should have been shutdown. They want to tell you that shutting things down lead to more problems then all the deaths.
PA reopened restaurants, bars, everything by early July 2020. People are still bitching today that they couldn't eat at Chili's for a few months five years ago. It's wild.
They wanted to open the schools again before teachers got their vaccinations. It would’ve led to a lot of deaths
I also think there’s an unfortunate angle to this where the Dems get pinned with whatever too-cautious thing any organization did, like what happens with activist policy positions, while everyone looks at the GOP turning into the anti-vaccine-and-horse-paste party and shrugs