yeah, there is the issue with the left-wing permanent government; but looking at what politicians were saying early on definitely suggests that their response was about the politics of blame avoidance.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
The permanent government would be the ones who would actually have to do the contact tracing and quarantining so their unwillingness to even consider those measures and almost certain intentional sabotage of them is far more important than anything anyone in elected office said.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Yes, there's certainly a problem that politicians have few options. But let's not ignore the fact that a lot of people on the right - the right wing base - were much more concerned about "freedom" than about stopping the virus. Freedom is usually good, but there are exceptions.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
The brains of the right wing were concerned about taking effective action against the virus; that's been shown to be beyond the ability of the state in western countries so the base intuits that nothing is going to be done anyway so the "lockdowns" are pointless (and harmful)
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
I just don't think that's true. Perhaps with the exception of Tucker Carlson though
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Not disparaging Tucker but he's still a popularizer - the brains of the right wing are the anon online guys At this point though the "open back up" people are not wrong because it's been demonstrated that Korean style tracing and testing and quarantining is impossible (for us)
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
> the "open back up" people are not wrong because it's been demonstrated that Korean style tracing and testing and quarantining is impossible (for us) They're right, but only by accident. WTF would we do if the fatality rate was 30%? We need to up our game.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
If the fatality rate was 30% it would still be right to open up because even that wouldn't make the permanent government capable of stopping it. They're not right by accident; they're right by instinct and because no one has persuaded them that the alternative is better.
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon
Perhaps, but again I feel this is being too generous to the right. Huge swaths of people on the right genuinely didn't take the virus seriously, which I think is ultimately because there is no right-wing academy who they can trust. We need to make that.
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Replying to @RokoMijic @RokoMijicUK
Agree on the lack of a right-wing academy being the real problem. The right-wing masses are far far better at everything than the left wing vote banks (including following reasonable directions) but are unled because the leaders the system allows them to have are their enemies
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As this has become more and more obvious their trust even in their permitted leaders has cratered
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