re: Why the Pandemic Is So Bad in America

I read it.....predictable drivel.

1. Blame man because we have pushed into wild animal habiats.

2.U.S. could have done more,bwhy we should have been more proactive.....we should have spent time in Jan/Feb creating test kits.... nevermind we were being lied to by China and the charatans at WHO

3. Blame Orange Man....he gutted CDC and bloated health agencies

Either we learn to live with this bug like we did with the flu after WWI and acheive a certain amount of herd immunity.....sooner rather than later, prople will die ...not from the virus alone, but from suicides, overdoses, other shite,
We will have widespread problems because we will have screwed large dwaths of the working and middle class, whose jobs do not entail doing Zoom from home.

Buuuut whatta I know, I'm not an "expert".

I'm not going to read that, but I have my own opinion.

We're the most prominent, most free nation in the world, and we're one of the largest. We trade and travel with everyone.

It's practically impossible to isolate our nation from outside, and attempting to restrict personal freedoms for the sake of public health has almost incited a revolution. Not just public opinion, but looking at state legislatures, La almost eliminated the governor's powers to declare an emergency. We had to be dragged kicking and screaming to any response.

Not saying the American reaction was right or wrong, or whether the pandemic was legit or not. The reaction was predictable, and would have been had it been a plague or anything else.
You can't treat the US like it's Luxembourg, or Sweden. It just doesn't work like that here.

And yet, we still never overwhelmed the healthcare response, we have a low per-capita death rate, and we're already back to recreational activities (flocking to the beaches, preparing for major sports etc). We're going to process and move past this international crisis in less than a calendar year.
That's not "bad", that's impressive.

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Scoob

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Great post.

Love the downvote.

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Jesus fricking Christ, that was a load of shite.

I made it four paragraphs. Someone beat that.

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You beat me, I didn't finish the first paragraph. Some wienies are in a bum rush to throw in the towel, mainly on the hopes it will defeat Trump.

Having once had an Atlantic subscription for several years before cancelling, I knew it was going to be a mistake when I clicked the link.

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Yeah those multisyllabic words can be tough sometimes

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WHAT kind of words?

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Great post.

Love the downvote.

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I know, right?

Did Covid overwhelm the US? Let's look at the resources we have-
Largest and most mobile military in the world. Huge National Guard/Reserve capability.
Did we need to invoke those, to set up emergency hospitals, supplement police, replace fallen infrastructure? No, not really. Maybe at a couple locations, but nothing near what we COULD have done. We had a couple hospital ships deployed, didn't come into use. We do see some deployment of military medical personnel to supplement civilian efforts, but that's more of an economic choice= agency staff are going where the better money is.
We didn't have to actually lock anything down, we encouraged people to stay home and we closed some public businesses. We didn't have the military patrolling to make sure you didn't spread the contagion like wildfire.

All of what we didn't need to do, we could have, and still state that it didn't overwhelm the US.

Propaganda? Misinformation? Unadulterated lust for power by the Democrat’s?