That's a question much bigger than covid. I would like our elected to fix the accountability for us, but they don't since the accountable are their donors and friends. So the last resort was added to your constitution.

We all want to avoid it but how long are we going to stay occupied fighting over bullshit reasons while some live like gods on everyone's expense without even a slap on the wrist?

Oh this dictator likes Putin to much we have to replace him with this other guy. For centuries it's been like this. Is it ever going to change? Probably not, one can hope though.

If you're asking me what you can do today? Put higher standards on truth from your allies than your enemies is a good first step. A lot of people today just regurgitate whatever is the topic of the month making the exact same points never questioning the source.

Orange man bad, Biden is senile, bla bla bla. You're the most powerful nation in the world start acting like it instead of bullying any country that opposes your truth into submission.

My question is pretty specific to covid, as is this HN post, so that's pretty much what I was focused on. Beyond that is pretty grandiose, but you may have some misconceptions about political power in America and how it works, particularly if you are exclusively deriving those from our media.

It's all connected though. Cause a mortgage crisis and crash the world economy? Just a hickup and the responsible still get millions while normal people lose their homes.

What you can do regarding covid is ask "how does this help me and society?" instead of just rolling up your sleeve when someone asks you. You need to start asking questions, all the time. They don't have your interests in mind. Neither does my own government so I'm not acting like we're any better.

Demand answers. Why was Fauci smirking behind Trump on press meetings knowing full well that the US was funding research on covid virues in fucking Wuhan? Textbook James Bond villain. How people are not outraged is a mystery.

To be honest, I'm not particularly interested in Fauci or outraged about him myself. I don't know what his motivations would be for smirking or anything else. I was in a state where our governor quite literally said that the old should be willing to sacrifice their lives for the economy, so he wasn't too fond of Fauci either. I will say that I spoke with my grandmother on that one and she decided that she'd prefer to live lol.

What a cute anecdote as response to the head of NIAD conducting gain-of-function research and covering it up when it "leaks". I'm sorry about my tone but it's incredible to see the denial.

He's the biggest reason your grandmother was even at risk and you go out of your way to ignore it because "Republicans" I assume? I don't know. I will never understand people.

Well, I haven't seen much evidence that would pin responsibility so squarely on Anthony Fauci, but say that he engineered the virus himself and released it into a Wuhan market as a cover and this was all proven beyond dispute. So what? I presume you'd want to punish him with life in prison or something stronger than that. That's fine with me, woodchip him for all I care. But what difference would it make to the way I should have lived my life for the last couple of years?

You haven't even looked for the evidence. Government files prove it. He knew and should've made it known instead of covering it up. Regarding your second question I already answered it. But honestly I don't expect you to do anything different, keep your head in the sand, do "the-right-thing" and live as you've always lived. You don't matter. Is that the response you want?

We're going in circles and I'm done spoon-feeding you. Best of luck.

Oh, I've been shown bits and pieces of evidence for awhile now, but nothing I'd consider a smoking gun. But I always come back to the same question - what does the source of the virus matter? Humans have lived with viruses for as long as they've been humans, and our ancestors have as well, I'm assuming back to the protozoan era. I suppose we used to blame god for them, but perhaps now we can blame someone else, and I'm sure in the future the technology will exist such that they can be manufactured by students at home. Regardless, it still seems that the best defenses against them have not changed drastically in recent history.