@mekkaokereke @noyes @EdSanders @beadsland No question. The US failure to invest in sound public health, use of a pandemic as a political wedge issue and cultural resistance to minimal sacrifice, lack of science education, etc was a systemic and cultural failure. Sitting on the porch hearing car horns honking and people cheering at healthcare shift change o'clock was amazing. Pretty much everything else showed me that my country is horrifically and maybe terminally flawed.