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Time for the rest of the world to forbid all travel in and out of the US. They made their bed, let them lie in it.
We did not make our bed. President fat fuck won by barely 1% of the vote.
Whilst I sympathise with you and the millions that didn't vote for him, you can't blame him for the millions that decided that vaccinations are a dumb thing that shouldn't be accepted.
This is feeling like "Covid 2" all of a sudden. Good luck over there, your country is going through a massive change, and it doesn't feel like a good one. Peace and love from Australia.
You can to an extent. Misinformation (e.g. the shit antivaxxers believe) can be prevented by providing quality education to the masses, but that has been diminished by the right for years now, and recently by Trump in particular with his drive to eliminate the Department of Education.
It could also be addressed by restricting the spread of misinformation through broadcast and social media, but surprise, those platforms are all controlled by the right as well—even directly tied to the current admin like Xitter or Trump's own Truth Social.
Actually you can, Trump went hard on antivax conspiracy in his first term and planted the seeds for what we have today. Remember, his brilliant solution was to instead drink bleach. And sunbathe your taint or whatever.
Ok fair enough you do have a point. However, surely we can't blame one cock head for making 74 million people cock heads.
No you can't and I can't act like I don't blame them too but this was an organized destruction of the country that has been happening for longer than I have been alive. The gutting of the department of education didn't start here and they knew what they were doing.
I blame the voters but even more I blame the people in power for letting it happen I blame SCOTUS for becoming partisan I blame the military leaders for not following the contract they signed that placed the constitution over all.
Doesn't mean you've got to trap good folks here