This is a huge strategic failure. To respond to the unprecedented pandemic, leaders must understand the dialectics. The lockdown & the economy look contradictory, opposing but in reality are complementary. A strict lockdown nipping out all routes of transmission in the bud...
is the guarantee of a quick economic recovery. Only when the disease is under control can an economy recover. US has erred by coping with #Covid19 half heartedly, letting wide open numerous backdoors for the virus. A society should move and act of one accord in times of crisis...
...like this which the US failed to do. Mass social coordination is not the #American DNA. #Americans cannot bear a couple of months' self-sacrificing discomfort in exchange of thorough and prolonged freedom from the virus. White House failed to craft this strategic vision...
and sell it to the American public. The powerful propaganda machine has been spewing fire against #China instead of coordinating an effective Covid response.
As long as the diseases is not under control, it will come back again and again to bite the economy
As long as the economy is not recovering, it will cause social unrest and worsen again and again the pandemic. In the end, America is losing on both ends.
This is philosophy. A game to be played by intelligent politicians and a sophisticated people which #America doesn't have.
Precipitating the fall:
Not knowing #Marxism has definitely put #Americans at a disadvantage. The dialectic is the building block of the Marxism inspired from European philosophical tradition embodied by Hegel. Marxism gave wings to the IQ of Chinese accounting for their success
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