Overall, if you’re confident Lockdowns are good policy (& dislike Trump) you shouldn’t be losing any sleep over the idea that ending lockdowns ‘too soon’ will help Trump win. As you surely know, it’ll be A HUMANITARIAN DISASTER that will sweep Biden into office easily. ...right?https://twitter.com/soncharm/status/1262174739461804033 …
You say that as if it's impossible yet South Korea is managing the equivalent. It's only impossible because of the other stuff that progressives have wanted - a country where our strength is diversity and government hiring isn't done by exam b/c of disparate impact, etc.
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*impossible in the extant context of the US as currently constituted, & given the degree of unchecked & widely-separated contagion that (unlike in SK) has already occurred I’d agree there may’ve been a window when SK-style containment was possible; it probably closed back on Jan
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The window on a US that could have done SK-style containment started to close around 1965; not in January of this year.
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