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At the very beginning, there was universal fear, quite naturally, and then the blissful 30 days (or was it 30 minutes?) that the country really did feel 'we're all in this together' and there was harmony and concern for neighbors and people competent with sewing machines making thousands of masks, etc. But so quickly it still amazes me, the issue became totally polarized and it was along political lines. If you believed in universal masking, social distancing, closing of businesses, and a reckless rush to develop a 'vaccine', you were a Democrat, and if you felt otherwise, you were Republican or possibly Libertarian. Why was this so? To me it is the single most confounding question of the last couple of years. I can imagine dozens of scenarios where things could have been different; they all involve listening to ALL the experts, ALL the research from decades ago until now, all the successes in treatments that reputable, experienced front-line doctors were reporting, and that small but insistent voice in each of us that MUST have said, at some point, 'this can't be right.' Figuring out exactly why this did not happen seems to be an important task of the next 10 or 20 years.

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