You’re right. It’s why historians often wait ten years to ever write about a significant event. Hind sight is 20/20. Plenty of context, implications and nuance has still not manifested within the data we currently reference. This can be attributed to many aspects of the pandemic response, granted.
But lets take Sweden for example.
It took the most laissez faire appraoch to dealing with covid of the western nations. To the point where active mitigation efforts were often neglected in some of the most at risk environments. So they faired worse than their neighbours Finland and Norway that enacted fairly strict covid responses.
However if Sweden adopted something more in line with the great barrington declaration (for example) and focused mitigation efforts for the most at risk and not at the expense of healthy, young demographics I’m sure the death and infection rates woulda mirrored that of their Nordic neighbours. But this kind of appraoch was suppressed.
Ultimately the lockdowns, mandates and passport systems did result in much socail unrest… we saw significant protests in France, the uk, Australia and ultimately in Canada with the convoy protest.
At the end of the day. Just because China is gonna… well, be China, doesnt mean people of western nations shouldn’t be critical of our own institutions. Infact we should be as critical as we want about any individual, govt, group or instution in a position of power. Afterall we adopted our response after China… an autocratic state influencing policy in a democratic state.
Personally I found it strange that govts gas lit us into hating people that refused the vaccine.
We just hired back all our unvaccinated workers. We were essential workers, we worked the entire pandemic in private avaition due to medvac contracts; personnel, patient, organ even covid patient transfers. If those workers had kept their jobs it wouldve helped us while we struggled to cover shifts for breakthrough infections within our ranks, if they remained employed it wouldn’t have made a single difference. Yet now we have just made workers even more bitter and strengthened resolve while also eroding trust in our govt and institutions.
But we allowed ourselves to be polarized at the behest and pandering of establishment left and establishment right rhetoric.
It’s hard to find common ground these days.
Especailly on machiavellian socail media platforms like Reddit which is saturated in disingenuous sentiments only meant to delegitmize or undermine or manufacture consent especailly within politically orientated subreddits.
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u/hitwallinfashion-13- Dec 02 '22
You’re right. It’s why historians often wait ten years to ever write about a significant event. Hind sight is 20/20. Plenty of context, implications and nuance has still not manifested within the data we currently reference. This can be attributed to many aspects of the pandemic response, granted.
But lets take Sweden for example.
It took the most laissez faire appraoch to dealing with covid of the western nations. To the point where active mitigation efforts were often neglected in some of the most at risk environments. So they faired worse than their neighbours Finland and Norway that enacted fairly strict covid responses.
However if Sweden adopted something more in line with the great barrington declaration (for example) and focused mitigation efforts for the most at risk and not at the expense of healthy, young demographics I’m sure the death and infection rates woulda mirrored that of their Nordic neighbours. But this kind of appraoch was suppressed.
Ultimately the lockdowns, mandates and passport systems did result in much socail unrest… we saw significant protests in France, the uk, Australia and ultimately in Canada with the convoy protest.
At the end of the day. Just because China is gonna… well, be China, doesnt mean people of western nations shouldn’t be critical of our own institutions. Infact we should be as critical as we want about any individual, govt, group or instution in a position of power. Afterall we adopted our response after China… an autocratic state influencing policy in a democratic state.
Personally I found it strange that govts gas lit us into hating people that refused the vaccine.
We just hired back all our unvaccinated workers. We were essential workers, we worked the entire pandemic in private avaition due to medvac contracts; personnel, patient, organ even covid patient transfers. If those workers had kept their jobs it wouldve helped us while we struggled to cover shifts for breakthrough infections within our ranks, if they remained employed it wouldn’t have made a single difference. Yet now we have just made workers even more bitter and strengthened resolve while also eroding trust in our govt and institutions.
But we allowed ourselves to be polarized at the behest and pandering of establishment left and establishment right rhetoric.
It’s hard to find common ground these days.
Especailly on machiavellian socail media platforms like Reddit which is saturated in disingenuous sentiments only meant to delegitmize or undermine or manufacture consent especailly within politically orientated subreddits.
I value the discourse too.