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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Levistus's_Leviathan" data-source="post: 8094704" data-attributes="member: 7023887">Yeah. I live in Washington, which overall has dealt with pandemic control better than some. Unfortunately, my county and other more eastern regions of my state refused for the longest time to do simple things, like mask mandates, shut down unessential businesses, ban large gatherings and the like. This caused a rise in cases in our areas for a long time, until we finally started putting those in place months after the other regions of the state. Surprise, surprise. Only a few weeks after my city forced people to wear masks in public, our cases and deaths started plummeting. It's not like anyone could've predicted that <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes    :rolleyes:"  data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /></blockquote>