Whether the lockdown should be lifted in principle or not, the government does have to balance the fact that because a lot of the world hasn’t taken COVID seriously, they’ve got a lot of social pressure from their own populace to adapt. COVID will unfortunately always be here because the Western world has no incentive to change or cooperate as long as they can point to China comparatively as a totalitarian hellhole, you know, for taking a global pandemic seriously.
This feels a lot like the spirit of the Berlin Wall conflict of narratives.
Whether the lockdown should be lifted in principle or not, the government does have to balance the fact that because a lot of the world hasn’t taken COVID seriously, they’ve got a lot of social pressure from their own populace to adapt. COVID will unfortunately always be here because the Western world has no incentive to change or cooperate as long as they can point to China comparatively as a totalitarian hellhole, you know, for taking a global pandemic seriously.
This feels a lot like the spirit of the Berlin Wall conflict of narratives.