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.
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It really varies from province to province. BC did really well during the early months but god damn it's getting out of hand now. Still no mask mandate. Still no testing of asymptomatic people. Public health officials recommend AGAINST mass testing. I think they're just worried about health care spending and deficits I don't know why else they would recommend such asinine policies.
Our testing regimen is fucking pathetic. In order for me to get a covid test done I had to wait on hold for THREE FUCKING HOURS and talk to like five different people, all of whom had to verify my health number date of birth etc etc. Once I got my test done days later I never even got my results back (?) I phoned the hot line like NINE FUCKING TIMES and they never answered. I assume I was negative because I can only hope they would have tracked me down if my result was positive.
For all we shit on America's (objectively horrible) health care system, compare this to Arizona where you can literally do a drive through test and it takes five minutes.
I got back from Arizona two weeks ago (today is my last day of quarantine hooray) and it makes me wonder why they don't just test everyone coming into the country it would be so much easier holy christ.
Trudeau has given some very nice speeches about covid and national unity and washing hands etc etc but unless I'm mistaken everything has largely been left up to the provinces, not unlike in America where it was all left to the states to decide themselves.
BC NDP ( "The only Social-Democratic Government in Canada or the United States") always finds a way to disappoint.
I thought I lost all hope in them after the Wetʼsuwetʼen raids earlier this year, but their recent COVID response has destroyed the last additional bit of hope I didn't even know I still had.
Atlantic Canada has surprisingly been the most sensible region regarding Covid from what I recall.
Yeah the Maritimes have done great, and I heard they have an agreement with Cuba to open up resorts to ONLY Atlantic Canadians which is fucking rad.
My biggest personal gripe with the BC NDP is the LNG project which makes a pathetic mockery of their entire climate change plan. They'll take their new majority government and probably do literally nothing with it, with the exception of paltry, mediocre improvements to the minimum wage that will be made irrelevant due to inflation by the time they are implemented.
If they can work up the courage to pass card check my feelings toward them will improve significantly but I have a feeling they're not going to want to piss off the small business community that much.
The old guard cabal of BC NDP that has been leading the party for my entire lifetime needs to fucking go and be replaced with new blood, young people with skin in the game.
Yeah, I'll be interested to see what they do now that they don't have the Greens to blame for not passing progressive policies. I think NZ Labour is in roughly the same position for what it's worth.
Arden seems to be cutting a deal with the Greens even though she doesn't need to. She'll give them a few scraps and then use that as an excuse.
I was speaking more towards NZ First, my understanding of Kiwi Politics is not great but I thought that the Greens were the more "left" option in comparison to Labour (at least since Roger Douglas)
Yeah, they are. Like in Australia, the Labour/Labor plan is to offer a few progressive policies that the Greens support and then go "We've already made the compromise with the left, we can't do more, it's not practical and you're all purists."
Which I guess is better than the US approach of "You lose! Good day sir!"
I think we all know what they're going to do now: sweet fuck all