In my occasional communication with old American colleagues, I am more and more wished a speedy vaccination, in place of the usual generic good tidings. I really hate this and sooner or later I will start telling each and every one of these people to go f*ck themselves.
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The Atlantic just published a piece by some lib complaining that her fellow libs are maybe going a bit too far with this and can't let go of lockdown
It’s interesting that America seems to have a much more extreme discourse surrounding these matters than DE (this is my impression anyway), but far fewer actual restrictions.
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Maybe the two are related, a lockdown on the order of Germany or the Netherlands exhausts everyone, and also provides far less space for signalling.
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I've been broadly disappointed with how well our nation adheres to the letter and spirit of the Constitution during all this, but the government that it created (A federalist republic) does an OK job of dividing power such that many of these restrictions are unenforceable.
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Germany’s also supposed to have a federal government, does f*ck-all here. something to do with parliamentary systems. Binding executive powers to the legislature in this way makes you prey every last preference cascade.
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I guess I would chalk that up to there still being strong enough regionalism to thwart DE level restrictions (see Florida, Texas). That is eroding and we will end up with vaccine passports and all the rest, but through the effort of private industry mostly
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