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Nope, they don’t get a pass for being incompetent from me just because a job is difficult. I’ll also never accept a “well their intentions were good” type of ar

Nope, they don’t get a pass for being incompetent from me just because a job is difficult. I’ll also never accept a “well their intentions were good” type of argument—-If the results suck, the results suck. Our country moved towards antivax mentality in a big way because of how our government handled that pandemic. That’s unforgivable and I am not someone who will blame the effect instead of the cause.

sarchertech 1y ago
Our country handled the pandemic nearly the same as other developed countries, but none of them have had such an extreme reaction. What happened is that our country is extremely polarized and one side picked vaccines, masks, and lockdowns, so the other side took the opposite stance. Then the vaccine, mask, and lockdown side reacted by leaning farther in (probably a bit too far near the end of things). On the one side you had people yelling about masks causing them to asphyxiate and on the other you had people wearing masks alone in the car.
- amanaplanacanal 1y ago
  I'm sure I was one of the people wearing the mask alone in the car, but that was only because it was easier to leave it on when I left the house than to continually put it on and take it off when I was out running errands. I guess I never found them that uncomfortable.
  - sarchertech 1y ago
    That’s fair. I was mostly looking for a hyperbolic example of people on the pro mask side, but that’s a good point.
YZF 1y ago
I agree and this is also true in other countries. I'm not sure why this is even a question. The results of the pandemic sucked big time and people lost trust over masks vs. no masks, boosters, lock downs, and many other pseduo-random rules not backed by any real evidence. This loss of trust was broader than just the vaccines. We don't even seem to be learning in retrospect. I've yet to see one article from health officials to the public about how they could have done better and what mistakes were made.

sarchertech 1y ago

Our country handled the pandemic nearly the same as other developed countries, but none of them have had such an extreme reaction. What happened is that our country is extremely polarized and one side picked vaccines, masks, and lockdowns, so the other side took the opposite stance. Then the vaccine, mask, and lockdown side reacted by leaning farther in (probably a bit too far near the end of things). On the one side you had people yelling about masks causing them to asphyxiate and on the other you had people wearing masks alone in the car.

amanaplanacanal 1y ago
I'm sure I was one of the people wearing the mask alone in the car, but that was only because it was easier to leave it on when I left the house than to continually put it on and take it off when I was out running errands. I guess I never found them that uncomfortable.
- sarchertech 1y ago
  That’s fair. I was mostly looking for a hyperbolic example of people on the pro mask side, but that’s a good point.

YZF 1y ago

I agree and this is also true in other countries. I'm not sure why this is even a question. The results of the pandemic sucked big time and people lost trust over masks vs. no masks, boosters, lock downs, and many other pseduo-random rules not backed by any real evidence. This loss of trust was broader than just the vaccines. We don't even seem to be learning in retrospect. I've yet to see one article from health officials to the public about how they could have done better and what mistakes were made.