in 2020, it shut itself down to stop the common cold from killing geriatrics and extremely unhealthy people - and largely failed to even do so.
the responses are incomparable because the situations are incomparable.
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-05-22/little-sense-of-shared-grief-as-virus-deaths-near-100-000
america did this to itself.
and, it seems to want to just move the fuck on.