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FpUser on March 23, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: EU vaccine rollout severely lags behind

>"So we can't keep a lockdown going because that's not a war."

I am not from US (live in Canada) but my impression is that the US population is in general way less subservient to the government comparatively to other countries. This could be just the reason you could not lock them up.

FpUser on March 23, 2021 [–]

>"But we can do vaccines great, that's just metaphorically shooting people"

I find this conflation very poor

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