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The coronavirus was likely in the US before anyone knew it existed. It's now hard to believe we ever

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-arrival-united-states-december-2020-6?amp

The coronavirus was likely in the US before anyone knew it existed. It's now hard to believe we ever assumed otherwise.

/On January 19, a 35-year-old man walked into an urgent care center in Snohomish County, Washington, with a cough and a fever. Four days earlier, he had returned from a trip to Wuhan, China./





Covid19 prob in USA before New yr

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  • And, it's spiking once again particularly in those states that opened up while the number of positive tests for the virus was still on the upswing. Oddly, we don't seem to care anymore. We apparently are good-to-go regardless of public health.
  • Now a nation of quitters, we are failing the marshmallow test.

    PKrug on child development & discipline / self-reg:

    One way to think about the Covid-19 pandemic is that it poses a kind of marshmallow test for society.
    At this point, there have been enough international success stories in dealing with the coronavirus to leave us with a clear sense of what beating the pandemic takes.
    First, you have to impose strict social distancing long enough to reduce the number of infected people to a small fraction of the population.
    Then you have to implement a regime of testing, tracing and isolating: quickly identifying any new outbreak, finding everyone exposed, and quarantining them until the danger is past.

    This strategy is workable.
    South Korea has done it.
    New Zealand has done it.

    But you have to be strict and you have to be patient, staying the course until the pandemic is over, not giving in to the temptation to return to normal life while the virus is still widespread.
    So it is, as I said, a kind of marshmallow test.

    And America is failing that test.

    New U.S. cases and deaths have declined since early April, but that’s almost entirely because the greater New York area, after a horrific outbreak, has achieved huge progress. In many parts of the country — including our most populous states, California, Texas, and Florida — the disease is still spreading.
    Overall, new cases are plateauing and may be starting to rise. Yet state governments are moving to reopen anyway..
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