‘but nobody’s saying until vaccine, that’s obviously ridiculous’ they told me have ANY pro lockdown arguments not turned out to be motte-and-baileys?https://twitter.com/nypost/status/1300473790904905729 …
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Motte and bailey implies that the same people wanted to lock down forever in advance and chose to only defend locking down for a little while. Lots of people are just crimestopped about thinking about institutions.
i guess there are examples of both. i do think some people wanted to lock down longer than they understood would have been politically palatable or even defensible at the time, so in arguments they retreated to 'just temporary', and those people were m&b'ing
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