And america failed.
I know so many people who are still throwing baby showers, traveling for leisure, and carrying on as usual. and these are generic libs in a lib city. Chatting at restaurants with masks off, putting their mouths all over dishes that some server has to carry, and a dishwasher has to clean.
On an interpersonal, economic, and governmental level, we are a failed state.
Everything is a culture war now. Us vs them politics means you can create a loyal voter base and keep winning elections, and therefore keep making money. It also means that you can plow through stuff like a pandemic, because doing stuff that would harm the economy is what The Bad People want.
I swear to god, if you told Americans that there was a republican and a democrat testicle, a significant percentage of the US population with testicles would cut a nut off.
I'd cut both off, but I was already planning to do that, so...
Would you keep your right nut if you knew it was a republican?
A smaller percentage would chop both off.