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Originally Posted by dad911
USA has too large of a spoiled-brat, self-entitled population to do that.
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As a group we do have a bunch of rugged individualist cowboys who avoid cooperation with others as a matter of principle. This works against us in a pandemic allowing far more community spread, longer and deeper economic lockdowns, and more deaths.
Most of the countries who fared well in this pandemic are fiercely capitalist but they also had very high cooperation between government and private business. Lack of cooperation in the US at every level including the white house, congress, state governors, the CDC, school districts, and private business made a mess of things. As a result we are still getting our azz kicked by this thing while most of the EU and the pacific rim are over it.
Lack of cooperation has been our Achilles heel for many years now.