This is becoming tougher and tougher to accomplish. This thread about the spread of the virus, along with (I think) most of us wanting the outbreak to end, as well as studying prevention trends around the globe that have worked and have not worked. There is a political figure that disagrees that this is important enough for our country to worry about, and is choosing to ignore the historical/scientific data from experts and the historical/scientific data we have all been tracking and discussing in this thread for the past 2+ months, and said political figure has flip-flopped back and forth on strategy twice now in the past three weeks; so naturally the conversation is going to dissolve into a political one.
I'm not sure how an outbreak spread thread can survive without it become political if politics is what is involved in it spreading or not spreading. It wasn't about politics until the issue got to our home turf.