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Real Questions Lingering Amid COVID-19
Hey everybody. Dylan here. Writing another community-oriented COVID-19 post for you here. Where I’m sitting, in Lubbock Texas, isn’t as high in cases as we’d expected a few days ago when the numbers started to jump. These trends aren’t necessarily linear, but as I wait for the situation to deteriorate further, I can’t help but wonder if it actually will or not.
Writing philosophy has taught me that sometimes the right question is more important than any answer — in this article, I’ll walk you through seven unresolved questions on my mind and show you a few of the resources that have helped to shape my views on this, among other things.
1. The outbreak seems to be spreading at a slower rate than it might have been. Did we do well at controlling the outbreak or did we do poorly at testing? Both?
In the case of testing, the US Government repeatedly lied to its citizens and sat on its hands. A Trump travel ban in late January had no effect upon the most potentially harmful passengers it was enacted to prevent from entering the US, and efforts to procure and…
