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Yes, it was the recent failures in CA that I am seeing living here as evidence that the rest of the country, and large chunks of the world, are also doomed to head down the same path. CA had all the right initial steps catching it early, and had every chance to move forward, but could not execute. I imagine Canada, NY and even Europe may end up following, although I really really really hope I am wrong.

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It seems like Europe is already executing better than the United States. Asian countries definitely did. The real problems may be in Africa and South America where state capacity is lacking or there is leadership that wants to ignore the virus, e.g. Brazil.

Failure to execute is why I will not support another lockdown. We squandered the time we bought with the first lockdown, and I don't see a reason to believe it would go differently the second time. Not with the government we have.

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