It would appear that Great Britain and the United States of America are having a competition for the World Championship of Stupidity. This is off-brand for "World Championships" as they usually only involve Americans challenging other Americans (and occasionally a few Canadians) for the "World" but not really world championship. But this time, the competition is indeed global. Although all nations are eligible, America and Britain have really run away with it and there really are no other true contenders.
We are in the midst of a pandemic, in case you were lucky enough to forget for a moment. Citizens of both the USA and the UK are struggling with balancing their toxic nationalism and their personal greed. It has left me stuck humming that shitty Meatloaf song: I would do anything for love... but I won't do that. Yes, two nations believing themselves exceptional, regularly chanting about the incredible sacrifices made for their historical "greatness" and a willingness to do ANYTHING to maintain that status... unless it involves wearing a mask and staying home. That is an ask too far.
Both nations are indeed exceptional - no other nations have done more over their existence to destabilize and damage the rest of the world. Like 7 degrees of Kevin Bacon, within about 2 degrees you can tie most any world issue back to one of these two geographies of greed. 2020, however, has shown us that America and Britain are also highly skilled at self destruction. Both nations have handled this pandemic extremely poorly, in no small part thanks to the inept leadership each had selected. These national governments are so epically botching addressing Covid-19 that BOTH the president and the prime minister CAUGHT THE DISEASE! Yes, neither nation could successfully prevent the leader of their country from exposure. That's like scoring a zero because you even forgot to write your fucking name on the test.
Almost a year of "open for business", mass gatherings, the politicizing of masks and anything else even remotely science based, it is a surprise to no one with more than 2 braincells in their skull that cases and death totals are out of control at an unparalleled level. People who still have "never forget 9/11" stickers on their truck have already forgotten that more people died in a single record day of Covid and headed out to their Christmas gatherings... maybe to ensure that we reach new levels of spreading over the next few weeks?
Just like in high school (because things never really change, you only get older) the geeks had to do all the work for the project. Somehow, doing what normally takes ten or more years, science nerds came up with a vaccine in less than a year!!! So far at least 2 separate groups of lab junkies have come up with approved options! INCREDIBLE! But wait... the power of stupid is strong.
At just around a month into the vaccination process the US and the UK are upping their game to do everything they can to fuck it all up. Continued social gatherings and selfish actions are leading to the mutation of the virus. The race is on to get enough people vaccinated before a strain develops that the vaccine will not protect from. Now that should seem easy, simply do what we all know we are supposed to do, what most every other country is doing. Yet Americans and Britons are hell bent on proving their World Champion level of self-centered, my-mother-drank-until-the-day-I-was-born ignorance! The gatherings only get bigger. The economy keep getting more "open". It doesn't matter if every other country in the world does what they need to and gets everyone vaccinated, if strains develop that are too variant for the vaccine it will eventually spread just as the current virus has across the world.
AND NOW: only days into the new year the muthafuckin UK is talking about prioritizing everyone getting the first dose of the vaccine rather than getting people the second dose at the recommended time interval! WHAT THE MUTHA FUCK?!?! That's not how it fucking works!!! Great... so i guess they've really planned out how to make sure the pandemic never ends. i guess America: you're up. What can you do to top that shit?
Listen to the fucking science. Stop fucking socially gathering. Wear a fucking mask. Wash your fucking hands.
