The Utah government should explain its real plan for its COVID response. I realize that we originally had “Utah Leads Together” and now the high, medium and low transmission plan, but those aren’t actually plans. They are veneers. They are the appearance of doing something, while in reality not doing anything.
Based not on their words, but on their actions, Utah’s plan is the following:
1. Pretend to care about COVID-19.
2. Allow the hospital system to fill up and become overrun.
3. Start shuttling people to the field hospital.
4. Hope for a vaccine sometime early next year.
That’s it. Based on our response up to now, it is no more complicated than that.
If we were actually going to get serious about the virus, we would have done it several weeks ago. But now, no. We’re not going to.
It would probably be less frustrating for everyone involved if we were just honest about the plan. Gov. Gary Herbert could stop his weekly briefing and get on with whatever he actually wants to be doing. Dr. Angela Dunn and the Utah Department of Health would probably stop being targeted by protesters. We could probably even stop testing because it doesn’t really matter how many people get the virus. Our response would be exactly the same. Everyone could stop hoping that it was going to get better. Because it’s not.
Geoff Schrank, South Jordan
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