This is what the United States has become.

Instead of leading the world in fighting a global pandemic, we’re leading the world in spreading the global pandemic. We’re also leading the world in crazy.

We have citizens who make it a point of pride to say they don’t give a shit about you, and they’re not going to wear a mask because that’s how you “Keep America Great.”

Canada is considering extending bans on non-essential travel into the United States for the simple reason that we spread COVID – whereas Canada has done a pretty good job at not spreading it. Of course, Canada has paid people who have lost work $2000 a month, per member of the household, to stay home – so there’s less economic angst. Republicans could have passed the same here, the Democrats proposed it.

Regardless, Canada isn’t in any hurry to open its border with the lawless, diseased nation to the south:

Canada’s top public health officer is warning that any decision to reopen the country’s international border — including with the United States — must be taken with “extreme caution.”

Dr. Theresa Tam provided the assessment Tuesday when asked for her scientific advice to the Trudeau government as it examines bilateral restrictions on nonessential travel at the U.S. frontier….

“Of course, the United States being one country that still has cases and is still trying to manage outbreaks … they present a risk to Canada from that perspective,” she told reporters in Ottawa. “So, we have to take that into account.”

“Still has cases …” “still trying to manage outbreaks …” – – how does that sound Americans? It sounds like we’re a nation that cannot deal with modernity on terms that other nations find fairly straightforward.

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Peace, y’all

Jason

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