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.
Some of the worse case scenarios that epidemiologists were telling us is all coming true. The exponential growth is astounding. So many people still don't get how bad it is. They cite the survival rate as it being not so bad, but that is only one factor. Plus many people are experiencing life long lung damage and other side effects like chest pain, brain fog, permanent tiredness. And our medical system cannot handle it, many spots are now almost full or are full and more people will die simply because there isn't enough hands on deck to help them or resources. So that survival rate is going to continue to go down but even still, most people survive it, so in the minds of the smooth brained, it's never going to be a real issue.
I will never forgive our original response to it. And the way fauci gave our conflicting information early on sowed so much doubt. The whole mask thing early on basically sealed the deal we would never get this contained, and I still believe it, unless some miracle happens or a real vaccine is found it will never end. The fact they told people masks aren't important early on doomed tens of thousand of people+, because forever will the reactionaries point to that is the reason they wont wear masks ever (among other things ofc.)
Also the way the feds raided that New York hospital and stole all their PPE is insane, idk how people just let that shit go and nothing was done about it. Just the most dysfunctional government with the most docile citizens imaginable
Fauci lied and people died. Not gonna forget.
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He took over in the middle of the aids crisis not at the beginning. The biggest complaint against Fauci from that era was he wasn't approving anti-retroviral drugs fast enough, not that he was covering it up because they were well past that point when he had this job.
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I don't disagree with you, but generally speaking Fauci is one of those people who thinks he's doing the most good by working from the inside even given its constraints.
He's not just some moron who kept falling upwards like a lot of other people in government. He's good at his job, it's just that his job is insanely difficult. The politics of pandemics are negative sum by default.
In Febuary, and after, that fucker said :
Later on he admitted that he was lying when he said that. Of course the CDC and every other Health org knew masks were effective against COVID from the very start. And yet, even now he says that he has "no regrets" for lying to the public.
But the biggest lie is the idea that he said that for reasons only relating to Public Health. Not true, there's no reason he couldn't admit to the Public that N-95 like masks would need to be prioritized for Healthcare providers, but that makeshift masks would be effective against Covid, that would've been the best move from a Public Health POV because it's not fucking lying, which will always raises future skepticism against anything you say.
He lied about masks for the same reason he lied in MARCH about cruises being safe, his job is primarily to protect Capital, and at the time that meant preventing peoples well founded panic from causing economic disruption.
Now we can of course see that sane Public Health measures would've done far more to preserve the American economy in the long run than the short sighted policy, and lies, overseen by Fauci. Unsurprisingly Capital is as stupid as it's deadly.
To the last part, capital isnt stupid. It literally only cares about the short term. Who gives a fuck if you can make a billion next week, if today you can make half a billion
Remember in March when there were supply chain problems for masks, and their solution was to issue a public health guidance that told people they didn’t need to wear masks?
That's the lie that made people die.
And the libs hold up him up on a pedestal as if he is just totally immune to criticism, like usual. They lionize anyone who has even a hint of disagreement with trump. Bolton being another good example of this. The most insufferable self righteous people hold up the most ghoulish evil people.
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Reactionaries would have whined about masks no matter how the information was presented.