Red
Well-Known Member
Don't know about you guys, but Americans are the dumbest and most arrogant people in the world. That's not a D and R issue, overall as a populace, the world thinks we're idiots.
Other countries are light years ahead of us as their citizens actually worked together to turn the tide. Their economies are also re-opening at a faster clip - imagine that correlation.
Instead, it's almost July and we're still debating that wearing masks violate civil rights and the government can't tell me where to stand.
“....there’s a longstanding anti-science, anti-expertise streak in American culture — the same streak that makes us uniquely unwilling to accept the reality of evolution or acknowledge the threat of climate change.
"We aren’t a nation of know-nothings; many, probably most Americans are willing to listen to experts and act responsibly. But there’s a belligerent faction within our society that refuses to acknowledge inconvenient or uncomfortable facts, preferring to believe that experts are somehow conspiring against them.
"Trump hasn’t just failed to rise to the policy challenge posed by Covid-19. He has, with his words and actions — notably his refusal to wear a mask — encouraged and empowered America’s anti-rational streak.
"And this rejection of expertise, science and responsibility in general is killing us."
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/22/opinion/coronavirus-trump.html