As Sun Belt states become new epicenters of the COVID-19 pandemic, attention has shifted to the increasingly polarizing debate over protocols designed to contain new infections.
New coronavirus diagnoses in the United States are skyrocketing — along with criticisms about the patchwork of state and local policies that are faltering in the effort to prevent community transmission of the virus.
However, social distancing and the use of masks in public have become a source of contention among those who feel it violates their personal freedoms. Fairbrother said the debate has become a Hobson’s choice that lacks nuance, between those who want to “close down the entire world for at least 3 years until there is no coronavirus left in any corner of the planet,” and others who are unconcerned about rising casualties.
Those warnings have been proven prescient, as quarantine fatigue and protests against social injustice have led many to abandon anti-coronavirus protections designed to bend the curve of new infections. “The fact that people are still saying ‘this is America, do what you want’ that’s fine from a legal or constitutional perspective, but from a public health and science perspective that’s a terrible idea,” Akhter said.
In Houston, where hospital capacity is nearing a breaking point, the dire situation has become an empirical study in how a lack of policy coordination can lead to dire consequences. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has come under fire for downplaying the need for masks, and allowing mayors to make their own calls for a mandate.
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