Horse meds were a largely American problem, but countries such as Russia, Brazil, and India had an equally rough time combating the pandemic. Even China, with their take-no-prisoners authoritarian response, in the end couldn't contain the spread.

Which is my point. We can't depend on a few smaller nations taking needed actions; to beat climate change, we need action from everyone, including the Americas and Brazils and Indias of the world. Particularly considering how much American consumption policy influences global production...

Global covid response was halting, half-assed, and resulted in millions of idiots mainlining horse meds instead of following official mitigation protocol.

Only the most authoritarian of countries were able to even temporarily control the spread, and they were effectively undermined by the Freedumb Corps.

If anything, it's evidence for how hopeless this fight really is.

Every single mitigation plan assumes governments, corporations, and the voting public will sign on.

I have yet to see evidence that this is possible. There's just too much momentum, too much money, and too many people wilfully, constantly refusing to change their course, for this plan to become reality.

Maybe that makes me a doomer, maybe a realist, I don't know. But I don't believe for even a second that we'll avoid disaster.

It's a gerrymandered map.

Ironically, that's the most American thing they could have possibly done.

I watched a video on another person who falsified data in a famous physics case. Took ages to catch him, and it only happened when they couldn't reproduce his results.

Seems like there's pressure to produce results sometimes that overrides good sense.

If any megacorporation can willingly cooperate with the unionization of their employees, I fully believe it's going to be Microsoft.

This was specifically before Musk took over.

There was never equality, and it just got even worse.