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Is America Prepared for the Pandemic After Covid-19?
- kaminar 5y agoOpenvaers.com
- mikewarot 5y agoWe were prepared, but our leaders threw away the book, and stopped funding for the supplies we'd need to deal with a plague. We're not done with Covid, we haven't dealt with the Long Covid cases that have disabled so many of us. We need socialized medicine as a basis of any national strategy, but the donor class won't allow it. So, we'll never be ready, if we manage to come out of Covid in the first place.
- proc0 5y agoI think this is article illustrates everything that's wrong with society. It just goes on and on about fixing problems, without even mentioning why the problem is there to begin with, let alone preventing those problems. > Better ideas might come from communities for whom “normal” was something to survive, not revert to. Many Puerto Ricans, for example, face multiple daily crises including violence, poverty, power outages, and storms Yeah, let's normalize pandemics, why not. We should continue to live in a perpetual state of fear, and just get used to it, because that's how we can best be ready to respond. That's crazy thinking. Why did this pandemic happen to begin with, and why isn't that priority in order to prevent the next one? Nuclear power seems to follow this logic, let's prevent the nuclear disasters, but for whatever reasons viral pandemics are not, and we must get used to them? I guess society must be rotting from within for people to accept this line of thinking. Nothing can be fixed by addressing the root problem causing the issues, we must instead address the symptoms nonstop forever, making the corporations and government (increasingly the same thing) more and more responsible for our lives.