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OhhhJa posted...

Pretty much everyone knew this was going to happen. At least I figured it would as well as many others I talked to. Are you telling me that I have more foresight that our medical experts and other related government agencies?

Why not? I certainly did. I've been predicting pretty much every step along the way of this thing since last February. Including most of the fuck-ups.

But it's worth remembering that being able to accurately predict something or suggest something isn't the same as being able to implement something. Saying "We're going to need some sort of universal ID system to show who's been vaccinated and who hasn't, we should probably have some sort of easy-to-carry card that is about the same size as a driver's license/credit card" is easy. Actually developing the system for such a thing and coordinating with every single vaccination point to distribute it, and establishing means to check for valid cards versus fakes, is much, much harder.

Regardless of whether you want to use it as an excuse to shit on either Trump or Biden, both administrations have completely dropped the ball on providing anything resembling coherent leadership or legislation. But it's also somewhat understandable, because people have been predicting a global pandemic was pretty much inevitable for years, and suggesting we needed systems in place to deal with it, and we never bothered establishing even the most basic of plans. So now we're like the metaphorical kid trying to finish his term paper an hour before the class where it's due.

When you're in the middle of a crisis where no one is really taking charge and hundreds of people, groups, local governments, or private businesses are being forced to invent policy on the fly with no real guidance, there's going to be a LOT of counter-intuitive shit going on.
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