> I don't put the blame entirely on Newsom, but America's COVID response has been a failure. We failed to enforce lockdowns, failed to do any sort of contact tracing and failed to give people confidence that there is any light at the end of tunnel.

Who would have thought that keeping citizens locked inside and spying on them when they are out of their dwellings effectively indefinitely isn't going to fly in "the land of the free." The reaction of the people is exactly what I would expect from a society that respects its freedoms while watching their leadership scaremonger and act against their own rhetoric and the media/big tech refuse dialogue and blatantly shut down any opposing views on the pandemic. We can blame whomever we want for this, what happened in America is the best thing that could've happened without completely stomping on civil rights.