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Re: Covfefe-19 The 10th Part: Might As Well Reject No Shirt, No Shoes While You're At
Actually, South Korea achieved their success without a total shutdown. What they had instead was more than adequate testing capability, a sophisticated tracking program, a healthcare system where profit is only A consideration and not the ONLY consideration, and a population that more or less accepted the science the government was relying on to save lives. They are also, apparently, still a society that understands what it actually means to sacrifice a little comfort or convenience if that means thousands won't needlessly die. Sadly, most of that is not in ample supply in this country.
Yup. The only way this stops being political is if the American people wake up. But like literally every other hot button issue, it is all about the politics. Ohio and North Dakota's governors can get as emotional as they want about whether or not wearing a mask in public is a political statement, but for those who refuse to, it is completely a political statement. They wear it (or don't, I guess) like a badge of honor. And for what? To own the libs. Childish, whiny little brats. That's what half this country is.
When the Russians put the first person in space in 1961, barely more than 15 years after the end of World War II, I wonder if people realize just what a feat that was. They suffered loss and destruction the like of which most Americans cannot imagine. Think of a Pearl Harbor attack day in and out from December of 1941 until August of 1945. Think of a half dozen of our biggest cities in ruins and millions of civilians dead. That was Russia in 1945. Yet when they beat us to space, this country decided we were going to accomplish something more impressive, more complex, and with far more reaching impact on the future. We started to catch up a few weeks later, matched them by 1962, and within a couple of years left their space program in the dust.
How many people think we are going to look at what South Korea figured out -- they still have fewer than 300 dead in a country of over 50,000,000 -- and say, next time, we're going to do even better than that? If you think the answer to that question is "yes" I have a bridge for sale I'd like to show you. Or maybe some prime swamp land in Florida ready for development. No, instead we are the country that for the last 9 years has had to rely on -- you guessed it -- Russia to ferry our astronauts into space. We have gone so far backwards as a nation. Its too bad even thousands of unnecessary deaths are not enough for millions of Americans to see the light.
Actually, South Korea achieved their success without a total shutdown. What they had instead was more than adequate testing capability, a sophisticated tracking program, a healthcare system where profit is only A consideration and not the ONLY consideration, and a population that more or less accepted the science the government was relying on to save lives. They are also, apparently, still a society that understands what it actually means to sacrifice a little comfort or convenience if that means thousands won't needlessly die. Sadly, most of that is not in ample supply in this country.
Yup. The only way this stops being political is if the American people wake up. But like literally every other hot button issue, it is all about the politics. Ohio and North Dakota's governors can get as emotional as they want about whether or not wearing a mask in public is a political statement, but for those who refuse to, it is completely a political statement. They wear it (or don't, I guess) like a badge of honor. And for what? To own the libs. Childish, whiny little brats. That's what half this country is.
When the Russians put the first person in space in 1961, barely more than 15 years after the end of World War II, I wonder if people realize just what a feat that was. They suffered loss and destruction the like of which most Americans cannot imagine. Think of a Pearl Harbor attack day in and out from December of 1941 until August of 1945. Think of a half dozen of our biggest cities in ruins and millions of civilians dead. That was Russia in 1945. Yet when they beat us to space, this country decided we were going to accomplish something more impressive, more complex, and with far more reaching impact on the future. We started to catch up a few weeks later, matched them by 1962, and within a couple of years left their space program in the dust.
How many people think we are going to look at what South Korea figured out -- they still have fewer than 300 dead in a country of over 50,000,000 -- and say, next time, we're going to do even better than that? If you think the answer to that question is "yes" I have a bridge for sale I'd like to show you. Or maybe some prime swamp land in Florida ready for development. No, instead we are the country that for the last 9 years has had to rely on -- you guessed it -- Russia to ferry our astronauts into space. We have gone so far backwards as a nation. Its too bad even thousands of unnecessary deaths are not enough for millions of Americans to see the light.
