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Many libertarians have the same opinions as us on non-economic foreign policies of the West (seeing through “human rights” claims as hypocrisy to justify war that is waged for resources and geographical control, what coups/assassinations/terrorists are ClA ops, etc.) because these are all state activities and they are anti-state, at least in the current form in the West
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Blumenthal’s opinions on the situation of vaccines in USA is very libertarian
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Clearly not a communist given he has never spoken positively about any AES and never explicitly supported enemies of the West
Yea idk that’s all I got lol
It is more unrealistic to expect people in the US to comply with the kinds of lockdowns, mass scale testing and contact tracing that would be required in order to be able to stop the pandemic without overwhelming majority vaccination.
It would also never happen because the US government is fundamentally unable and unwilling to do those sorts of things. Maas vaccination is already the compromise measure for whiny, entitled westerners and their bourgeois states.
Yes China was able to maintain zero-Covid with much lower vaccination rates. But no western government could ever do what China did. And even with all that success, we see there are still some problems in China now and then.
Localized outbreaks can get fairly bad when there is the slightest slip-up. No one can be perfect all the time, so when some local government makes a mistake, it is a big detriment not having those kinds of 90%+ vaccination rates.
China has been working very hard to make up that vaccination gap especially among the elederly who are paradoxically, one of the demographic groups with the lowest rates of vaccination in China. This is a problem that is being addressed.