Read: It would theoretically be salvageable, but under Trump/the Republicans and Biden/the Dems, it won't be.

We had one shot to do it right like China did (Who have been pretty much actually back to normal for months now), but our government on both a federal and state level have just absolutely, royally fucked it all up. Mainly because they were/are too much of greedy, stingy, capitalist assholes to give people the aid they need so that their lives aren't completely destroyed.

After 8 months of annoying-ass variable on/off lockdowns (Instead of doing 1 sustained national lockdown at the beginning), the public will to continue has overall been destroyed, and it ain't comin' back.

  • Darkmatter2k [none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    Get a feeling it the same in Europe, people are sick and tired of perpetual lock downs and trust in local governments is waning

    • Circra [he/him]
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      4 years ago

      It is, yeah. I think what really did it for a lot of people was that during the first lockdown everyone was told, amd was expecting that the govt. Would use the time wisely. That we'd come out of lockdown, the govt would have a working system in place to track infections and trace contacts etc. And instead we just got shit.

      There was genuine good will there for a few weeks. People were largely obeying lockdown rules etc. Then it became obvious the govt had no fucking clue what it was doing and sort of bungled a worst of both worlds measure that saw a tonne of already teetering businesses shut down, people already struggling going under etc. And for what? Loads of politicians and advisors broke lockdown and precious few of them saw consequences, there wasn't a track and trace system that worked (it still won't work on older smart phones ffs) and we just keep getting story after story of yet another billion or multimillion contract handed out to one of their mates.