New Orleans shut down. It did well with testing - wisely replacing drive-thru centers with walk-up ones in poor neighborhoods - and mandated masks early on.
We sacrificed and brought the epidemic to a virtual halt, as did NJ and NY....but we are surrounded by MAGA retards who ignored all warnings and went to bars and churches and diners maskless because NO ONE IS GOING TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO or some bullshit. Now the parishes around us are on fire...and it will spread back here.
So months of sacrifice for nothing. We failed to control it.
With better leadership we could have strangled this plague. We'd be preparing to send kids back to school now, and getting ready to watch the Irish play football.
Fucking Trump.