COVID-19 Outbreak (Update: More than 2.9M cases and 132,313 deaths in US)

Mr. Sparkle said
I know that this is quickly going to become a big narrative - similar to You Shouldn't Live Below Sea Level! we all heard post-Katrina - but we had like 12 confirmed cases in the US on Mardi Gras day.
The infamous Biogen conference in Boston hadn't even started yet

The idea that Edwards and Cantrell should have proactively cancelled Mardi Gras 10 days earlier than that is pretty silly.
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I disagree here. Keep in mind the first person to test positive was only the 12th test run in the state. Had testing been run on a larger scale earlier they would have found the problem. Ignoring it was never going to prevent it.