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>in the cultural decline as the US quite obviously is. [citation needed]

lern_too_spel 5y ago
The complete inability of the United States to deal with the pandemic suggests that the US is unable to mobilize itself to solve large problems effectively.
- m0zg 5y ago
  We're doing about as well as any comparably sized country and have developed two of the world's leading vaccines (China's vaccine, apparently, doesn't work). I'm not sure what else you can do to "deal" with an endemic disease that's never going away. It's the inability to deal with severe, entrenched corruption that'll do us in, not the pandemic.
  - lern_too_spel 5y ago
    I didn't say that the pandemic will do the US in. I said that the pandemic demonstrates the US's inability to take effective action. China's ability to deal with problems that require collective action gives it a large advantage over the US.
- vineyardmike 5y ago
  The US response is not regionally uniform especially compared to some nations eg. Israel but we're doing ok from a global perspective. Generally, i think the regional differences are a feature, not bug, of the US but obviously this isn't really advantageous in the pandemic. We developed several vaccines and slowly but steadily vaccinated huge amounts of people (we have a bigger population and lower density than to most nations we're compared to here). We had a few missteps like the mask mandate press and mask efficacy warnings, but otherwise got key medical info and protective equipment out across a large nation rapidly. We rapidly transitioned to remote work, host most of the requisite infrastructure and are home to most companies that made that possible. We mobilized early to provide health care, from testing to pop-up hospitals across cities. Sure its sad to think of hospitals being overrun and using hotels, but many nations were left with even less. Our only big mis-step was the political nature of the virus that we bred.

The complete inability of the United States to deal with the pandemic suggests that the US is unable to mobilize itself to solve large problems effectively.

m0zg 5y ago
We're doing about as well as any comparably sized country and have developed two of the world's leading vaccines (China's vaccine, apparently, doesn't work). I'm not sure what else you can do to "deal" with an endemic disease that's never going away. It's the inability to deal with severe, entrenched corruption that'll do us in, not the pandemic.
- lern_too_spel 5y ago
  I didn't say that the pandemic will do the US in. I said that the pandemic demonstrates the US's inability to take effective action. China's ability to deal with problems that require collective action gives it a large advantage over the US.
vineyardmike 5y ago
The US response is not regionally uniform especially compared to some nations eg. Israel but we're doing ok from a global perspective. Generally, i think the regional differences are a feature, not bug, of the US but obviously this isn't really advantageous in the pandemic. We developed several vaccines and slowly but steadily vaccinated huge amounts of people (we have a bigger population and lower density than to most nations we're compared to here). We had a few missteps like the mask mandate press and mask efficacy warnings, but otherwise got key medical info and protective equipment out across a large nation rapidly. We rapidly transitioned to remote work, host most of the requisite infrastructure and are home to most companies that made that possible. We mobilized early to provide health care, from testing to pop-up hospitals across cities. Sure its sad to think of hospitals being overrun and using hotels, but many nations were left with even less. Our only big mis-step was the political nature of the virus that we bred.