The reason why this is happening is because decades of privatization of the health sector here has essentially crippled any and all efforts to roll out coordinated immunization. Stocks of vaccine just sit in freezers and expire because the infrastructure to treat people doesn’t exist anymore
The systems we had to mass immunize 6 million people in less than a month 70 years ago no longer exist, and have been replaced by one that ensures only the affluent get vaccine
it’s so funny seeing people on twitter pining after tumblr like “damn the tagging system was great” or “i miss customizing my own page” it’s like that scene in movies where everyone eulogizes a character who’s very much still alive and in the room
They pretend like tumblr is dead but still go on here everyday to steal jokes 😭
First week of 2020: Trump orders the bombing of the second highest ranking official in the Iranian government without the approval of congress and nearly plunges the globe into world war 3
First week of 2021: Trump refuses to concede and orders his followers to attack the capital building in a treasonous coup of domestic terrorists, nearly plunging the america into civil war 2
