America is so deeply authoritarian, that mainstream culture views all problems and solutions through the lens of leadership, which means that implicitly or explicitly America has resigned itself to trying to solve the pandemic by voting on it in November.

There were like 60,000 new cases yesterday, and this number is growing. Even if we can keep the growth rate linear, the election is still over 100 days away.

That means six million cases, by the way.

At this point the question is, "literally what does it take for the American people, at large, to recognize a problem not solvable through broken electoral processes?"

Some excellent follow-up questions include, "what do they do if the incumbents win?"

Because here's the thing:

- we only had a handful of weeks break from the prior peak to get this bad again
- tens of thousands dead and dying isn't having an effect
- being locked out of the globe isn't having an effect
- seeing effective approaches isn't having an effect

If you want to view this as a failure of leadership, then what do you believe is the trigger event that will cause existing leaders to change their beliefs, approach, or behaviors?

If you want to solve this through standard processes, then how is waiting another 114 days better?

In short, when you look at the current state of affairs, what evidence do you have that the very same system that has mismanaged this state of affairs is capable of suddenly effectively managing this state of affairs?

It's shocking, really, how we've adapted to the numbers. In March, 100 new cases was a tragedy. Now we see headlines like "9000 new cases in Florida yesterday" and it's like, "oh good they're not in the 5 digits"