Let's pretend for a moment that we beat back the spread by social distancing and stay inside measures. What's the end result? Let's pretend we get a best case and have 2,000 undiscovered cases in the wild after that. What happens then? 1/x
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Well, at some point a few weeks ago we had 2,000 cases. What did we do about it then? We did nothing. How do you handle it to stop it from simply going exponential *again*? Well you have a model: do what Taiwan and Singapore did. Sounds great, right? 2/x
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So what did SG / Taiwan do? Oh. Uh, that sounds like it might be beyond the US's ability, doesn't it? 3/x https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2762689?guestAccessKey=2a3c6994-9e10-4a0b-9f32-cc2fb55b61a5&utm_source=For_The_Media&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=ftm_links&utm_content=tfl&utm_term=030320 …pic.twitter.com/2WlXel2PZV
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USG of course has an entire structure set up to gather this information on its citizens but of course, the parts that collect it don't trust the other parts of USG. NSA would have to share this data with CDC or CDC would have to build this data collection from scratch. 4/x
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How long would it take USG to set up this type of data collection? Once CDC has this data does it use it to stop the spread of disease or does it use it for every progressive pet project under the sun? Which one of those choices gets the person who makes it promoted? 5/x
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Look over this very helpful page on CDC's website that describes how they've treated violence as a public health problem: https://www.cdc.gov/violenceprevention/publichealthissue/timeline.html … Oh. 6/xpic.twitter.com/DXe8hW4M9s
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USG is fundamentally broken. It prioritizes progressive holiness over everything - including basic of state functions. If it does try - it screws up because it can't find competent low level staff because it scrapped the civil service exam. 7/x https://www.opm.gov/FAQs/QA.aspx?fid=de14aff4-4f77-4e17-afaa-fa109430fc7b&pid=f17f1aa4-925f-4a6a-81f4-1135de31fff8 …pic.twitter.com/KnxsqQ4HDg
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
No. The Trump Administration has been far worse at the "basic of state functions" than the Obama Administration. The Bush Administration was far worse than the Clinton Administration. See, for example: the Iraq War, Hurricane Katrina, and COVID-19.
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Neither the Bush nor Trump Administrations were hotbeds of progressive piety. If they failed the basics of governance, perhaps we should look to the right-wing epistemic bubble and their willingness to elevate hucksters over competent administrators.
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Replying to @ACertainSmell @CovfefeAnon
Or, tell me: where would you rather live? In the rich parts of the US that are managed by people who are supposedly paralyzed by their progressivism? Or in the right-wing, politically incorrect areas that continue their rapid descent into ignorance, poverty, and ill health?
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Idiotic choice. Singapore is better than either and isn't an out of reach standard Blue states have high human capital with worse government (mixed with vote banks of savages); red states have leaderless peasants who do foolish thing because they are deprived of leadership.
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I'm sorry, I have a higher standard than authoritarianism. Worse government as proven by what? Your insane paranoia about progressivism?
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