heres how I know; vietnam & australia didn't need the vaccine to do it, so whatever it is that caused the US to not be able to deal with the pandemic without the vaccine is also gonna make the US be unable to deal with the pandemic with the vaccine.
The lack of the vaccine isn't the problem, corruption is. It isn't a tech problem, it's a governance problem. The US is gonna have COVID for ever.
PS, the exact same thing applies for climate change. Ppl be like "oh climate change will be fixed once we invent the right tech". The thing is, we already have the tech to end climate change, we're just ruled by ppl who don't want to. We're fucked, and we're fucked forever, stop waiting for the ghost of albert einstein to solve your problems for you with a glass vial & recognize that anyone who tells you to is the enemy
Aus have dedicated public healthcare, and despite occasional Murdoch adjacents crying about freedom and the economy, most people adhere to mask rules and lockdowns.
Oh and the whole, pay people to stay indoors thing.
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pretty hard to lockdown if you can't afford the rent or food
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so weird that the very much foreseen recession bounced back pretty quickly once you support the lower classes. No idea... probably a coincidence...
i believe the states did most of the work, not the national government. iirc morrison was trying to get states to open their borders...
Yeah I don't know much about the states relationship with the federal government. I'd love to know how much tussle there was between the two. I know Morrison is money above all, unless it counters his ideology, in which case there is no limit to the 0's on the check!