COVID arrived in the US on January 13. Wednesday is May 13.

That’s four months. Four months to figure things out, to communicate a plan, & to get testing & tracing in place. Instead, it seems we’re just opening up because of politics. Our leadership completely failed this test.

We should have been told clearly by our leaders *why* opening up is safe. How the rate of spread can be detected & controlled with X amount of tests & Y amount of tracers; by how much mitigation also controls the rate.

None of it. Instead: “We just have to do it. We’ll see.”

At the end of the day, this is a virus & its spread is a math equation. There’s no luck involved. You either have the measures in place to prevent spread, mitigate it, & treat the infected—or you don’t.

That we still don’t know where we stand is a national embarrassment.

I mean, how are Americans supposed to be confident that our leaders have things under control when they can’t even stay on top of the spread among members of the WHITE HOUSE staff and don’t take *their own* mask guidelines seriously?

After this is all over, there needs to be a full-scale Commission that conducts a top-to-bottom investigation of our national response to this thing. We can’t afford to be this unprepared & incompetent ever again. We’re the United States. We’re supposed to lead.

Look, the leadership has been abysmal regardless of whether reopening now is the right thing to do—because no one has given a satisfactory explanation as to how a second outbreak won’t occur. People are still afraid to go out because no one really knows where things stand.