Success should be measured in how the coronavirus pandemic GOALS are enumerated, communicated, operationalized and executed by state and local officials.
“I trust you to do the right thing” is not a goal.
This is the duty and responsibility of government officials.
NO, it’s not good that our deaths are low, because THEY ARE NOT. Furthermore, I reject deaths as a metric of success. Deaths are a measure of failure: certainly to the individual/family but also on a societal level.
Let’s get on it.
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