AFAIK the correct solution to the pandemic hasn't changed since 2019: test and trace, pay and support people who need to isolate. That's the only way you prevent spread and the rise of new variants. China did this, now they can roll out the vaccines on a voluntary basis and while they're not completely relaxing other policies, they're not experiencing giant outbreaks.
"Well China doesn't have to deal with a population of hogs and they did it right from the start, we're so overwhelmed with covid we can't take such a lenient approach with vaccination now" Isn't it still true that most unvaxxed are also uninsured, and have good reason to be skeptical of the government and pharmaceutical complex? Pushing the technocratic fix on people is engendering resistance, and it can't /just/ be from the hogs, can it?
I'm not sure if a real solution can be implemented in the US, but I don't understand why so many people on here are embracing the solution pushed by both liberal parties. Like, trying to get everyone to drive an electric car is not solving climate change.
Should we just get used to the masks? Am I wrong and it /is/ just the hogs throwing a tantrum?
Edit: I'm vaccinated for covid, I guess I've caught a little brainworms comrades. Thanks
If the shitheads in the government just gave everyone n95 masks and mandated their use, we’d be in a lot better shape with regard to the vaccines effectiveness. Social isolation ala China was never an option because of our suburban and semi-rural areas. Rural China didn’t do lockdowns in the same way as the cities did
That still leaves too much (in)action up to the individual, imo. There's just no political capital to carry a mask mandate out, and the enforcement of such a rule would be left up to everyone's favorite sole conceivable mechanism of enforcement under neoliberalism: the cops, who would surely never abuse their position to make life hell for poor people on the basis of something as silly as a mask, right?
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