Where do you believe the problem is, if you believe a problem exists?

We've seen that when it comes to public health and safety and the economy, it's difficult to address the needs of one without hurting the other. I think the previous year has made this very clear. I understand that some will disagree, as usual. My question is: If you see this as a problem that needs to be addressed, where do you think the problem lies?

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I feel we lacked sober honesty about COVID. About what we knew when and didn’t. About mistakes made. Fundamentally about what we could do and not. We made this political theatre. We politicized every aspect of this and fed it to the cultural war as chum. Individual health care choices and community management choices became moves in a war.

We would have better off being candid about trade offs and letting people make choices as locally and individually as possible. We needed to have an honest discussion nationally as well as locally that saving lives and sparing people illness would have an economic cost, and that illness would have a long term social cost. That saving the economy would have a social cost and a loss of life. Then we could make informed decisions and accept the consequences up front.