I'm sorry if I sound like one of "those" people who is stopping people from having fun, but there is no way you are going to convince me that the hundreds of thousands of fans gathered for NFL and college football games are all vaxxed and not risking further mutation. I get that it's outside, but again, these people are shoulder to shoulder, maskless, yelling for 2+ hours, going to and from the bathroom, etc. I just really don't understand how the script has flipped so abruptly from "an outside gathering of tens of thousands of people is definitely a super spreader event" to "nahh it's OK because people are outside."
So it seems like we're back to business as usual, and I won't be surprised if we see another mutation. Or who knows, maybe this thing will just fizzle out.
Not sure what you're talking about. They recovered and their economy was the only one that grew in 2020.
It does way more damage to the US than it does to China, even if you make the most conservative estimate of the American impact and the most :LIB: estimate of the Chinese impact.
True, it's dumb. But China would've accomplished even more without the US being a covid reservoir.
The difference in growth/contraction is greater than any other year. Plus, honestly, it's very satisfying to me to see the US take a hit to its economy, even though that economy still sustains me 99% (I hope to get that down to 30% in the next 5 years).