Coronavirus trends

Hi, today I'll just be talking about the latest COVID-19 trends and my opinions towards them. As you can see in the graph above, the rate of transmission of COVID-19 is still steady.
Just on Friday alone, over a 100 thousand new cases were diagnosed, and 6 thousand people died of COVID-19 related causes.
You can also see on the graph on the right, the amount of confirmed COVID-19 cases in the USA spiked, surpassing cases in Spain and Italy, which  had been heavily affected by COVID-19 weeks before the USA saw high transmission rates.
I believe this happened because the USA did not see this as a threat, and did not act accordingly. I live in Washington. Washington was residency to the first COVID-19 positive person in the USA. It became one of the hotspots of COVID-19 within the USA. It was even referred to sometimes as "the Wuhan of the USA".
Even when neighboring school districts were closing, and COVID-19 began transmitting at an increasing rate, my school district didn't close. This may sound harsh, and I mean it in the nicest way, but they put education before safety. They were faced with a dilemma of course. If there was no school, some kids without access to internet at home would have no chance to participate in school activities. Parents would have to stay home to supervise their child, or have someone else do that. These parents who have to stay home may be of an essential workforce. The other side was to try to reduce the rate of transmission as much as possible.
The schools should've realized that reducing the transmission of COVID-19 was the most important factor at hand. I tried emailing the school district, giving facts about COVID-19. I tried to convince them that the best thing to do is to close down the school district for now, despite all the harms it might cost. I never knew what eyes laid on my paper, and I never will. All I know is that the message I sent had no effect on the school district's choice. Relative to the rest of the country, my school district was one of the first to close.

Our president even referred to it as the "Chinese virus"

The USA didn't handle COVID-19 well PR-wise either. The USA didn't demand full quarantine until later. Even know, there are still people who aren't taking it seriously. Yesterday I went on a jog. I went by myself and I avoided everyone on the cross walk by moving towards the opposite side. I stopped at a dog park, and I saw a group of families talking with their dogs running around. I wondered why these people were grouping together. The point of quarantine wasn't to visit your friends, but to stay away. It was to reduce the rate of transmission. Theoretically, if everybody did abide with the rules of quarantine, the rates of transmission would decline to 0 really fast, as COVID-19 would only travel within each family. But of course people still need to shop. More frighteningly, people still want to hang out with each other.
I was on a call with my friend the other day. He asked me if I have been seeing my friends. I told him that I haven't, as I shouldn't leave the house. I said that I've been keeping in contact with my friends from video and social media platforms. He told me that he'd been hanging out with friends frequently. When I told him that what he was doing wasn't wise, he simply said he didn't care. He's one of many people in the United States who don't care about the rules of quarantine, and don't care about the goal of it.
People in Florida are protesting their rights. Towns are even starting to re-open because people believe it is their right. It is their right, but they must realize that what they are doing isn't smart. But there's no point in trying to convince them to do otherwise. Just as there is no way to prove to anti-vaxers that vaccines actually work, and to flat-earthers that the Earth is really round.