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13) And it gets worse. You know what _another_ option would have been? Search "when was the COVID vaccine developed" and you'll find lots of articles bragging about how FAST and QUICK it was. Because it only took a year to get to the public. The vaccine was ready in a month.

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14) Seriously! The mRNA COVID vaccines were ready in February. February 2020, that is. The next nine months were clinical trials. Meanwhile those who weren't dying were locked in their rooms.

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15) Seriously, fuck whatever systems decided that was a good tradeoff. We could have had it out in March; a simple trial on 1,000 participants would have been plenty to prove it was safe and effective.

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16) (People will decry the unprecedented money printing this year. It had bad effects! But also the economy would have been shit otherwise. We shut down the world for a year. IDK whether the monetary response was good or bad. Needing to do it in the first place was bad.)

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17) So, again, where are we now? We're lost, really. No one knows the plan, because there is no plan. We're opening back up, maybe, kinda, not really. Maybe this is the new normal.

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18) And that's the scariest part. Not that we fucked around for a year with a vaccine ready. Not that we all gave up 1.5 years of lockdown, and counting, along with inflation and businesses closing, for 30 days of life. No, the worst part is that we gave up on the future.

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19) There are various phrases the US likes to say, sometimes. New Hampshire is the Live Free or Die state. And maybe that's an exaggeration. But what the world has shown in the last year is the opposite.

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