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You think America is "scientific and enlightened"? The way we "handled" COVID perfectly demonstrates why we aren't.
Oh, really? You mean the pandemic that hit when the religious party was in charge? That pandemic? The one whose handling began with the christian nationalists? That one?
The "religious" party in charge that disbelieves science and did as much as it could to hide the evidence of COVID?
Yes, that party is what proves America isn't "scientific and enlightened." Because our response to COVID would have been much better had the GOP not tried to sabotage as much of Obama's legacy as possible.
You're using the literal witch hunting party as the standard. I would wager they don't represent the average scientific belief of Americans. Hence why their abortion push is so unpopular.
So what's the standard, in your opinion, that delineates a "scientific" nation from an unscientific one? Because I would posit a country where more than 30% of its citizens don't believe in evolution or climate change, and who regularly get to control the government, doesn't meet that standard.
There is no fucking standard, we're all shitting the bed the world over. Look at the Middle East, does that look like a bastion of scientific thought? Not in the last 1,000 years? What about the British Isles? Oh? The Tories are making a cumback? Nazis? In my Germany again? Its shit all over, dude. We left the Tau long ago.
Tens of millions of lives saved with science and technology. I'd say that's a pretty good result, considering what happened last time.
We could have saved tens of millions more had we listened to scientific experts, rather than letting right-wing conspiracies hamstring our pandemic response.
Also having 50 different approaches to the problem instead of one national one didn't help either. Allowing states like Florida be superspreaders because they refused to do literally the bare minimum was a mistake.