How a Public Health Crisis Becomes a Public Trust Crisis | RealClearPolitics
Once again widening our focal lens to look across all states, several takeaways emerge. First, even as the public remains cautious — with fewer than one in five Americans in our latest survey favoring immediate reopening — Americans are nonetheless growing impatient with the apparent inability of our institutions and leaders to control the pandemic. Governors who moved quickly to reopen without following CDC guidelines and whose states are now suffering a resurgence of the pandemic are paying the largest political price, along with an increasingly unpopular president whose handling of the pandemic has grown steadily less popular since we began polling in mid-April.
LWJ blames people not wearing masks. I believe, based on nothing, that that hasn’t made such a big difference and that it’s all down to the mysterious workings of the viral ecosystem.