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The US is not the entirety of the west and its political, social, academic, journalistic, health, regulatory, and administrative systems are not identical to th
by strken 7y ago
The US is not the entirety of the west and its political, social, academic, journalistic, health, regulatory, and administrative systems are not identical to those of the rest of the west.
The breakdown of trust and the resulting inefficiency that exist in US systems aren't happening everywhere.
- ajross 7y agoThey are to some extent. The US has some... unique problems[1] in this area, sure. But general bureaucratic decay is everywhere. France and Germany are seeing the same PPE shortages, the same hospital equipment snafus, and pretty much no one in the world outside the Korean peninsula has figured out how to do enough testing to contain this thing. Again, it's true that the US has fallen farther (consider the federal coordination of industry in WWII and compare to the disaster today). But no one is doing "well" here. [1] I despise that I have to euphemize that here on HN, but those seem to be the rules the community enforces.
- notechback 7y agoAsian countries had practice and were prepared due to SARS outbreaks just 10 years ago. Not an excuse but an explanation. Germany is apparently doing 500k tests a week, not that shabby especially if they keep increasing that number.