Re:The U.S.' vaccine rollout is world-beating
by coldtea on Monday February 15, 2021 @09:43AM
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They used to compare the state of the US after Europe was ravaged for a century by WWI and WWII (both of which had minimal impact on the US), and thought their shit doesn't stink.
(Forgotting that in the 18th century most of the US was still a provincial backwater - some states basically mostly wild land -- and Europe had far more modern and beautiful cities and better infrastructure).
That, plus the heritage of some religious inspired BS from the earlier Americans (religious zealots from Europe), of the place being some beacon for the world, having a "manifest destiny", and so on...
(Forgotting that in the 18th century most of the US was still a provincial backwater - some states basically mostly wild land -- and Europe had far more modern and beautiful cities and better infrastructure).
That, plus the heritage of some religious inspired BS from the earlier Americans (religious zealots from Europe), of the place being some beacon for the world, having a "manifest destiny", and so on...