AES governments are actually democracies, for better and for worse. See, the USSR liberalizing their economy in the late Soviet period, largely due to public pressure.
They’re under immense pressure to stop masking and testing, both externally from countries demanding they open up their economies and internally from citizens who have been tricked by the rest of the world into thinking COVID isn’t dangerous after vaccination.
I’m sympathetic towards the inability to continue, it just shows that they aren’t yet strong enough to totally defy the market forever.
On the bright side, at least when bird flu spreads from milk drinkers in the US they’ll be ready to go right back into lockdown.
thanks for the constructive answer. I’m less confused about lockdowns than I am about mask mandates and air quality rules, which seem like they wouldn’t be as affected by at least the pressure from other countries.
it shakes my faith in AES governments that all these places seem to have given up on mask mandates, testing, and air quality 😢
AES governments are actually democracies, for better and for worse. See, the USSR liberalizing their economy in the late Soviet period, largely due to public pressure.
They’re under immense pressure to stop masking and testing, both externally from countries demanding they open up their economies and internally from citizens who have been tricked by the rest of the world into thinking COVID isn’t dangerous after vaccination.
I’m sympathetic towards the inability to continue, it just shows that they aren’t yet strong enough to totally defy the market forever.
On the bright side, at least when bird flu spreads from milk drinkers in the US they’ll be ready to go right back into lockdown.
thanks for the constructive answer. I’m less confused about lockdowns than I am about mask mandates and air quality rules, which seem like they wouldn’t be as affected by at least the pressure from other countries.