should have taught us all some things not to do--your example is the biggest one of these--and some things we ought to do--masks, social distancing, restaurant and night club shut downs, avoid high concentrations of people indoors.

And that, if the states who were not hit so early had paid closer attention to what was going on in NY, both what worked and what didn't work, they could have and should have done better than they did and might not be in the position they are in today.