No one, including me frankly, has really learned the lessons we should have learned from the pandemic. Heart wrenching but informative replies.

https://twitter.com/chr0nicallycute/status/1475544663159455745?s=20

  • Mrtryfe [none/use name]
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    3 years ago

    Failing our most vulnerable despite having all the resources - there really is no redemption for the West

    • star_wraith [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      To expand on this, I've been reading about how in the Eastern Bloc states, they did all sorts of good things to help vulnerable people. For example, in the GDR, if your child was disabled, you were given a larger home to accommodate them, more time off, and other resources. The vulnerable were better cared for. Not to mention objectively, the Eastern Bloc states were far ahead of the West at the time w/r/t women's rights and I'd argue well ahead of Western states in 2021.

      And what's sad is, I could go on about how great all this was to Americans (at least to most white, male, neurotypical and non-disabled Americans) and they will either discount these achievements as unimportant or actually criticize it as "government overreach" or a "waste of resources".