TupamarosShakur [he/him]@hexbear.net to covid@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-28 months agoJfc this is one of the worst things I’ve readnymag.comexternal-linkmessage-square27fedilinkarrow-up141arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up141arrow-down1external-linkJfc this is one of the worst things I’ve readnymag.comTupamarosShakur [he/him]@hexbear.net to covid@hexbear.netEnglish · edit-28 months agomessage-square27fedilinkfile-text
Americans have learned all the wrong lessons from the pandemic Archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20231030144616/https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/covid-lockdowns-big-fail-joe-nocera-bethany-mclean-book-excerpt.html
minus-squareFishLakelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·8 months agoNot a mention of Vietnam’s successes. Ok well, how about New Zealand who had comparatively aggressive lockdowns despite having an entire goddamn ocean to help prevent COVID’s spread. But not a peep about them either.
minus-squareMagician [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up33·8 months ago Not a mention of Vietnam’s successes. That’s been US policy since 1973.
minus-squareTupamarosShakur [he/him]@hexbear.netOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up27·edit-28 months agoAs always, the us is the only country that exists
minus-squareIldsaye [they/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up12·8 months ago Sheltered from news of the outside world? What are we, North Korea???
minus-squareinvo_rt [he/him]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19·8 months ago Not a mention of Vietnam’s successes
minus-squareElHexo [comrade/them]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11·8 months agoA bunch of Australian states did pretty well too (and two did very poorly), including using restrictions to stop a couple delta or omicron outbreaks
Not a mention of Vietnam’s successes. Ok well, how about New Zealand who had comparatively aggressive lockdowns despite having an entire goddamn ocean to help prevent COVID’s spread. But not a peep about them either.
That’s been US policy since 1973.
As always, the us is the only country that exists
A bunch of Australian states did pretty well too (and two did very poorly), including using restrictions to stop a couple delta or omicron outbreaks