I think the ultimate core of American system dysfunction is that American elites, at least the majority, seems to have 100% started believing their own bullshit and those who are smart enough to know better are either too cowardly or opportunistic to say otherwise preferring to
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They followed the conformism of their experts, that covid elemination was impossible but suppression was necessary to maintain functioning of the medical system and prevent capacity overruns. They weren't incompetent, just dishonest in that this requires long term on and off
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state interventions to suppress flare ups. They just didn't think that a zero covid strategy was workable because of the nature of respiratory diseases. It turns out that this was actually doable as several countries have managed to contain casualties to order of magnitude lower.
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