The New York Times has done a deep dive on how badly the US has done with the pandemic and it’s sobering. But it fails to account for the real reason it has happened:
No, the country has not “failed” to vaccinate anyone. The right wing has persuaded their voters that vaccination is some kind of a conspiracy and the Republican Party has opportunistically benefited from it. The right has failed the country, not the other way around.
I’m sure that it would be nice to “convince its citizens to protect themselves” and the government managed to do that with the vast majority. The rest are mostly fools who believe it’s better to drink urine or take hose paste than a life-saving, free, accessible, safe vaccine. They should say this.
Or, as Roy Edroso put it: