First we were told covid hit our shores in February, then January, then December, then November. The genie was already out of the bottle before anyone caught on. The idea that we could have stopped community spread is not true. You have to know about something to stop it.

It was circulating in Italy as early as September 2019 and there is lots of travel between Italy and the US. Source: Reuters, link below.

https://www.reuters.com/article/heal...-idUSKBN27W1J2

"The low rate of lethality" is one reason it was not identified earlier according to the article.

Developing natural herd immunity among healthy people while protecting the vulnerable is not an unreasonable approach for a low lethality virus.

The problem is our vulnerable are not protected. Here is an article on how dirty nursing homes are:

https://www.pedagogyeducation.com/Ma...s.aspx?news=78