Re: Why bother?
I should have added "where I live" -- California
This is a large state with a couple of densely populated areas in an otherwise sparsely populated rural state. The politics of the rural area is very similar to the Heartland -- put simply, there are many Trump followers and so a lot of people who don't believe in vaccination and so on -- while the urban areas have a lot of high skills people who tend to "follow the science". This sharp delineation tracks both vaccination rates and the disease itself, the correlation between the two that was first noticed last year.
The response to Covid in the US was conditioned by the needs of the 2020 Presidential race. I have no idea why anyone would want to import this level of dysfunction into their countries.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
