FWIW I agree that after 2 years of the pandemic I see it as a failure of leadership.
> Basic rights(buying food) are violated for some
Let's not resort to hyperbole here. They can shop at Loblaws/Provigo/IGA/Metro/Maxi/Traditions like most people. They don't have a right to shop at Walmart.
It's not really hyperbole, I think. The basic right is at the very least being threatened, if not explicitly violated (yet).
Even the nowhereville my mom lives in has an H-E-B, Homeless Despot home improvement palace, pharmacy, and greasy spoon restaurants.
I have seen grocery store "deserts" in tiny towns (<2k people) populated by dollar stores while grocery stores are 10-40 miles away. That's the price of living in rural areas. There are other areas in the US where Walmart came in, destroyed local independent businesses, and left.
vaccines are free.
Edit: Plus, my rights and the rights of the majority of people were violated by quarantining for a year because idiots, ignorant, and reckless individuals caused community spread. If the rights of everyone had been uniformly violated with a strict quarantine for a month at the outset, it would've been contained in the US like China did. When the US stops wanting to be so "Great" it might be able to check its own ego and do what's vital for the survival of its people. It's another item that could form the basis of a sequel to "Where to Invade Next?" that showed how the US doubles-down on failure when other countries are far better in particular systems.
In ATX, there's a deficit of 200+ police, 50+ EMTs, and who-knows-how-many nurses. Finding a decent doctor haphazardly is like playing Russian roulette with 5 bullets in a 6 wheel. (Obligatory firearms metaphor for Texas.)
I've already been through a couple of psychiatrists since their misanthropic lack of BSM and acceptable human behaviors like listening were insurmountable. Found a good otolaryngologist and a gastroent. PCP also needs to be changed.
Further, hasnt the "lack of workers" been exacerbated from vaccine mandates on workers?
So, you have a system that cannot competently do its work prior to crisis cannot plan with enough time and *further chooses to shoot itself of the foot by limiting their labor
None of these seem to indicate that those in charge care about taxpayers in the process.
What is the government scared of? - incompetence? - lack of planning? - labor practices?
No. None of these. They are scared of doing something different because "no one got fired for buying ibm". Nothing scares them more than doing something different from what is coming from the top.
There is no vaccine mandate for workers. They tried to push for it initially but they realized that they couldn't deal with the unvaccinated workers leaving, especially in long term care homes.
They are allowed to go to regular grocery stores.
The government offered a $15k bonus to nurses if they agreed to be full-time and it barely changed anything.
I think the US needs massively better immigration customer service and expanded visa programs to attract more medical workers, especially caregivers and nurses.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S026240792...
https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/JVI.79.3.1595-1604.2005
I know I should find the most charitable interpretation, but I genuinely don’t see it.
So in that context the government is legitimately scared of it all crashing down so we get these policies.
For the more data driven among us here is a chart showing what I mean: https://i.redd.it/l76rbcvkl0e81.jpg (In french but you will probably still understand)