Most of the developed world has managed to stop #COVID19 at this point. You’d have to be pretty nearsighted to think it can’t be done.https://twitter.com/CovfefeAnon/status/1278227976782561287 …
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Replying to @JayMan471
I don't think he's saying it can't be done in general. I think he's implying our institutions can't do it. They're too busy studying the "gun epidemic" and how "systemic racism" kills. And their hands are tied on contact tracing by well-meaning, but stupid, civil libertarians.
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @JayMan471
Yes; except that the civil libertarians aren't totally stupid because their instinct is that USG would prefer to hurt them than control a plague and they're right. The stupid part is when they oppose an effective, non-intrusive measure - wearing masks - out of mistrust
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @JayMan471
It's still pretty stupid. Using cell phone data, CCTV, etc. like South Korea did ended their lockdowns quickly. Which is more tyrannical, a relatively minor invasion of privacy or destroying businesses, keeping kids out of schools, and telling people they can't leave home?
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Let me see... disrupt the lives of those actually sick during a pandemic while allowing healthy people to go about their business, or hobble the agencies charged to do contact tracing so the disease spreads out of control, forces everyone into draconian policy, and 100k+ die?
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Replying to @The_Petrichory @JayMan471
CDC couldn't do contact tracing if it wanted to and it doesn't want to; this is an agency that threatened doctors who were giving unapproved tests for COVID - "disease prevention" is no part of their institutional aims
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @JayMan471
That's because its incentives are all wrong. It's a bureaucracy, and the first rule of working in a bureaucracy is "the nail that sticks out gets hammered down". There are a lot of eggheads there. Academics who chose a cushy govt. job over a largely unprofitable research track.
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Would you risk a career with a fat paycheck, benefits, and pension on making unpopular demands of the populace? You make tepid recommendations because being perceived as a competent, but useless lackey is rarely grounds for losing a government job.
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Popular with who is the key question; CDC certainly advertises that they follow an agenda that is popular among all progressives. Unfortunately effective measures are unpopular with them because those measures are seen as old fashioned - a throwback to the less enlightened past.
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