Well,it's very amicable for all the other countries that they have the habit of wanting to be first in everything.

Fun fact: Europe, which has a population of over twice the US, is doing around 15k daily cases. That is while most European countries have almost fully opened up again.

Russia and Spain are ~8000 of that.
Ukraine + Romania (eastern europe) make up another ~2k.

Spain is haveing a 2nd wave it looks like..... this virus man.
Its again spreading, and not dropping.

Well, it is not gonna stop until there is a vaccine, more waves are bound to happen and will be a necessary evil to retain a more normal living. We can't all play on super easy mode like New Zealand.

Spain needs to roll back somethings or do something to again get Rt under 1.
Not a full lockdown, but it needs to do something to off set this, so it doesnt get worse.

Don't try and twist the narrative to fit into your own agenda.

It's not about me, it's most certainly not about even you... It's about society as a whole. - As in, collectively.
Yes I am an essential worker, I was essential before the lockdowns, during and after.

But if the situation was different and I wasn't an essential worker, I would still support closing the economy to save lives, I have empathy for other people and a functioning society as a whole.

Again, you are only thinking about yourself.
Speaking with a P1/P2 mask on isn't difficult, so that's a bullshit excuse... You forget (and excuse the selfie) I wear this (Which is far more restrictive) and communicate just fine. It's literally air tight.

But apparently a few seconds of your time is worth more than the health and well-being of another human being? This is why I am me and you are you and we likely have very different lifestyles.

It's actually the law for vehicles to pull over to the side of the road here to allow emergency service vehicles to pass unrestricted.

Which makes your argument entirely baseless.

No. Personal opinions and choices do not matter.

If you are not an essential worker, then your line of work isn't "essential" for society to remain functional, thus your job can be put on stand-by with government support in order to protect other lives.

Morality has absolutely nothing to do with it, this isn't religion, it's common sense stuff.

Health care and emergency services should have substantial "caches" of PPE in order to draw from.
If they do not, then that is a failure on planning from elected officials. (I.E. Trumps political party.)

And no. People should not be "free" to choose to do whatever they desire, whenever they desire if it puts someone elses life at risk, that's not how you build a cohesive, civil society... And if the United States is an example of anything, it's that allowing a free-for-all has turned the entire nation into the epicenter of disease, death and often a joke on the world stage. (I.E. Gun related massacres.)
The USA isn't "great" at the moment, it's basically educating the world on what "not to do".

Basically what you are proposing is that... A parent should be allowed to drop their COVID-positive child off at daycare, because they have to work, to spread disease, the other 100+ parents aren't "free" to say "no" to that and protect their COVID-negative children, you put that one child above all the others.

If the economy is so important though, why not just keep everyone in lockdown and just kill a few rich people to boost the economy? You will have more GDP per Deaths that way.

Honesty, at this point I don't care who gets the vaccine first or HOW they get it. Russians are not saints, Chinese are not saints, and certainly Americans are not saints. I don't care if they have to spy on each other 24/7. I just want the damn thing figured out for now; then we can go back to kill other over the most stupid little things.

One might think that spying on each other and wasting precious time on cyber defense is not the best way to get a vaccine fast.

Things are bad in South Africa.
Their health system was already near run down and collapsed, before the coronavirus.

Theres now lack of ppe, lack of medicin, lack of oxygen, lack of workers (nurses/doctors).


from the mirror.uk :

"Nurses have been acting at cleaners at overstretched hospitals where unborn babies have reportedly died in understaffed maternity wards."
"Livingstone and Dora Nginza hospitals in Port Elizabeth, South Africa has been enduring an increasingly severe staff shortage "

"The impact on the Eastern Cape city of Port Elizabeth, where only two infectious disease doctors care for seven million people in the broader district, has been devastating."

"The main Covid-19 hospital, Livingstone, has come to resemble scenes "like a war zone""

"Blood and other medical waste has been spilled over surfaces and not cleaned up."

"Patient welfare has also been badly impacted by a shortage of ambulances, no ventilation and a lack of oxygen. In one particularly grim photo taken at Livingstone rats can be seen drinking what is presumably human blood from a drain."

"...reports that patients had been "fighting for oxygen" supplies in a ward at Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth."

When you dont have staff, so giveing child birth is killing mothers and their babies.
Something that wouldn't have happended before corona virus.
You have sick people that need oxygen masks/tanks, and have them and their familes, fighting others, for air!