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create a system that actually follows public health guidelines including masks, quarantine, and contact tracing. What America could have done, with reasonable leadership.

I dunno about that...leadership can only do so much. Those folks following the leaders need to comply with the rules and apparently there is a worldwide issue with compliance. Even back in the 1918 flu epidemic there were many who simply refused to comply.

For the most part, people simply refuse to do what they are told.

Good coffee, good weed, and time on my hands...