Here is the bottom line according to this article:
Dozens of interviews, along with survey data and scientific studies from around the world, point to a lifesaving trait that Australians displayed from the top of government to the hospital floor and that Americans have shown they lack: trust, in science and institutions, but especially in one another.
When the pandemic began, 76% of Australians said they trusted the health care system (compared with around 34% of Americans), and 93% of Australians reported being able to get support in times of crisis from people living outside their household.
In global surveys, Australians were more likely than Americans to agree that “most people can be trusted” — a major factor, researchers found, in getting people to change their behavior for the common good to combat COVID, by reducing their movements, wearing masks and getting vaccinated. Partly because of that compliance, which kept the virus more in check, Australia’s economy has grown faster than America’s through the pandemic.
But of greater import, interpersonal trust — a belief that others would do what was right not just for the individual but for the community — saved lives. Trust mattered more than smoking prevalence, health spending or form of government, a study of 177 countries in The Lancet recently found. And in Australia, the process of turning trust into action began early.
Here they had to turn us against each other so that Donald Trump could be removed from office. It didn’t matter the cost in lives. It never has.
In the USA, it’s been politics from the get go, not health. It’s never been about anyone’s health here.
“saved lives”
Did it really? For some reason I just kind of doubt that.
The New York Times channels Mary Baker Eddy ... wow!
“Trust”?-—HAH!
I “came of age” in terms of political awareness during the Watergate hearings and the fall of Saigon.
I “came of age” in terms of voter eligibility shortly before Three Mile Island.
My generation learned one simple truth: Government and their “experts” LIE.
The Millennials and Zinzers don’t have enough mileage....
Wait,,,,
What?
Well, the American death toll might have been grossly inflated due to crediting C/iviD-19 for the deaths that were caused by other coexisting maladies, not the virus.
The other bottom line is that we never “save lives”.
We only delay deaths.
🤣 Yes, and it was I who turned the moon red this evening. It was actually me, because I say it was me. You cannot prove it was not. Therefore, it is true.
Were hospitals killing patients in Australia? They also made it sound like they just happily complied with getting the shot. They were forced.
Didn’t force Remdesivir on anyone going near a hospital?
In the US, hospitals were paid by the government for every reported COVID case and death. That’s why you had those who died in car accidents who tested positive for COVID being counted as a COVID death.