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The West’s Failure on Covid is Even More Staggering Than You Think
What the East had that the West didn’t wasn’t money, power, or resources. But something deeper. A set of values and ideas. Social cohesion, trust. Respect for vulnerability. A sense that each life matters, no matter how frail and defenseless. An ability to pull together in the moment of crisis. And the wisdom to look beyond the narrow Western idea that money is the point of life — versus life being the point of money.
The West, by contrast, seems mired in attitudes of individualism, selfishness, narcissism, carelessness, and ignorance so extreme they can only be described as toxic. Much of Sweden seems to have bought the idea of “herd immunity,” which any decent scientist — or even any decent biology student — will tell you is nonsense. But so has America — and when was the last time those two nations had anything in common?
Holy crap you really love extremist sources. Develop a filter. Please. Stop randomly posting whatver you google without a modicum of checking source.
When you see an article on "how the west has failed" the first, second, and third thoughts you should have is how radical the source might be, or the views expressed within. I mean if you really think that in this world proper, that its the US, Canada, all of Europe, whole western world that represent the "failure states" you are very misguided. (I did your fact checking for you once again. The source and author is heavily biased, and against the freedoms you should hold dear.
This source doesn't just think the west failed the pandemic. The source and all their articles purport that the West IS failure.
jebus I'm probably on some list just going to that site...
i feel like I should scrub my hard drive..
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