You’re absolutely right, it would take way longer if they told them to create the ideal conditions to spread the disease. They did slightly something slightly different though, they said “we no longer care about this regulation” which gets people to start fucking things up quite a bit faster than “change the way you do this for this new regulation”

You’re not wrong that they’re probably isn’t a measurable a difference yet, but I guarantee that it’s coming and it’s going to come hard