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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by josefx on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @11:43AM (#30087812)
In Germany there were at least half a dozen members of parliament caught with their hands in the cookie jar for the money meant to buy masks alone. It would be interesting to see how many more used it to enrich themselves but the decisions enabling them where so hilariously badly written that nearly all the money spend on the masks was wasted.

You can write entire lists of how fucked up the governments response was. Government money for tests done under supervision of a professional? The same Dr. listed as on site contact in half the country. Repeated calls to get vaccinated? Government repeatedly blamed Doctors and population but never bought enough vaccines.

The government response around here can be summed up as corrupt incompetents fucking up the economy while playing the blame game. I could not think of a group objectively less qualified to respond.

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by nobody9999 on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @12:59PM (#30089085)
>The government response around here can be summed up as corrupt incompetents fucking up the economy while playing the blame game. I could not think of a group objectively less qualified to respond.

Assuming you live in a country with democratic (small 'd') institutions, you elected those folks. If they're corrupt and/or incompetent, that's on you and your fellow countrymen, no?

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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by josefx on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:21PM (#30089478)
It is mostly the same parties sitting in government as back in Weimar when they helped Hitler ban the biggest competition. I am quite sure some of them even date back to our last Kaiser (not the soccer one). What is a single person to do against political parties that historically should be considered complicit in starting and losing two World Wars and survived without having their ideologies purged?
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Re:Pfizer board member suggests end to mask, vaccine mandates by BitwiseFool on Wednesday January 26, 2022 @01:46PM (#30089891)
>"If they're corrupt and/or incompetent, that's on you and your fellow countrymen, no?"

To an extent, yes, but I believe real-life has shown that removing incumbents is very difficult. I sense that the makeup of the district and the composition of party strength is the major factor in determining whether or not a politician is reelected or replaced, rather than popularity or approval rating.

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