Yeah I agree but, like I say, we were defeated by COVID before Biden was elected, just like we were defeated in Afghanistan before he was elected. He could have pulled off something excellent in either case, but that would have been very difficult and I don't know how he would have done it.
How was this country defeated by covid? What could he have done otherwise? Hospitals aren't overwhelmed today, that was the entire concern of the pandemic.
People forgot about the whole "flattening the curve" thing, and a bunch of narratives cropped up about what the end goal was.
The goals, which were never real, started to have political consequences and it became a whole thing.
People forgot about flattening the curve because we literally did flatten the curve. It was about hospital capacity:
https://www.michiganmedicine.org/health-lab/flattening-curve...
We were defeated in the sense that the very idea of fighting covid became a political hot button and a huge percentage of the US population decided not to fight.
Yes, it could have been worse, maybe we could have had utter collapse. But hospitals did get overrun multiple times and many people died completely unnecessarily because we stopped fighting. I really wouldn't call this a win; covid is now endemic and continuing to evolve inside us. At best this is a bloody stalemate.
Re:War Is a Racket (1935)
by nonethewiser on Thursday May 25, 2023 @06:07PM
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Covid is over. It might still be around but we are done melting down over it.
History books will hopefully acknowledge just how terribly the entire world handled it.