Scott Madin

it's so fun how it's March 2020 all over againhttps://twitter.com/WHO/status/1414623744123969536 …

if every country had closed indoor businesses, provided masks, paid people to stay home, and mobilized state infrastructure to deliver food and necessities, the pandemic would have been over a year ago, before we even had a vaccine.

and everyone knew it at the time.

if as a society, a country, a planet, we'd agreed that in the face of a global catastrophe governments should provide for their people and the short-term economic cost was better than long-term devastation, millions of people would still be alive.

tens of millions would not now be living with long-term chronic illness/disability they didn't have before.

in the United States alone, nearly a million people have died due to the covid pandemic. virtually all of them would still be alive and healthy today.