| ▲ | softwaredoug 4 hours ago |
| The US will kick into gear at certain emergency times (WW2, Covid, etc) but not so great outside of then. |
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| ▲ | ryandrake 4 hours ago | parent [-] |
| I don't see how the US's feeble and lackluster response to COVID counted as "kicking into gear". |
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| ▲ | softwaredoug 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | We put massive public funding into vaccine. We also seemed to fund healthcare a great deal (now being pulled back as ACA subsidies expire). Covid was the basis for a lot of short term emergency measures in early Biden, even late Trump I, admins. | |
| ▲ | zeroonetwothree 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | We developed vaccines in record time, saving millions of lives. If that’s “feeble” then I guess I’ll take it every time. |
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