>Those places would have come out better if we all did this. If we all did what, exactly? I live in Canada. We shut down our economy, spent vast amounts of m

>Those places would have come out better if we all did this. If we all did what, exactly? I live in Canada. We shut down our economy, spent vast amounts of money on social supports, had wide vaccine and booster adoption...and had similar results to many countries that did far less than that. Our smallest province had, literally, zero deaths and a handful of hospitalizations for over a year into the pandemic. It was an example to the world. Then Omicron hit and that province had one of the worst infection rates in the world. Almost like nothing they did mattered and it was just a matter of time... >In this case the dissidents even use this argument to show that the better choices didn't work And the conformists keep moving the goalposts, claiming we didn't do enough. You need to tell people what they need to do, and for how long, and then you're kinda hemmed in. We were told vaccines would get us "back to normal" (even that they prevented the spread). It turned out they were remotely as effective as claimed. How long can normal people be offered that carrot, then have to backtrack, before they revolt? I agree that global coordination would be fantastic, but probably impossible.