urutzizu
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« on: March 16, 2020, 05:53:10 PM » |
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How anyone reaches this conclusion is beyond me. Amusing, really. During the initial outbreak in China, Americans did not appear to see a threat from the outbreak but instead an opportunity. Your belief that your ideology was superior, interpreted the events as a failure exclusive to China's political system of which America was simply immune from. This mentality (see Wilbur Ross gloating it was an "opportunity for American jobs") has proven your undoing. American Exceptionalism strikes again.
The fact is that the US couldn't have properly prepared for the virus even if they wanted to. Your political institutions simply don't allow for the centralized management of these types of crisis. Can you imagine the ****show that would ensue if the US tried to quarantine a city even 1/10th the size of Wuhan, or an entire state?!
Then there's the American healthcare system that seems to think providing free testing for epidemic prevention = literal communism.
Then the arrogance of the American CDC, telling people NOT to wear facemasks because they just assume that most Americans are too stupid to put them on properly (they might have a point on that one...). And then they turn down the testing kits from the WHO cause "the American version is obviously better" when it's objectively not and dozens, if not hundreds, were tested with false negatives.
This is what you get when you have a culture that puts Ideological Purity over the life and well-being of its citizens. Combined with the almost a hundred years of brainwashing of "socialism bad!" and voila.
And you see it all the time, like when nobody in America is asking "how can we learn from China's experience" nor are you even asking "is the WHO and China telling the truth" but only "how is China lying and how did they get the WHO to lie for them"
Minds are made up, evidence doesn't matter. Literally dying rather than just admitting the Chinese may have done something right after all.
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