Will have to second chadyrov. If they were extremely stupid, their rotten ideological edifice could be knocked over little effort. They are extremely intelligent, but they are even more conformist. Their conformism blocks certain mental avenues that would otherwise be open but
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their intelligence allows them to build convoluted mental models that serve to buttress their conformism. Intelligent people love exploring complex systems, it's an advantage but it has weaknesses in that they can become lost in abstraction.
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I don't see it. Take ncov as a test case - they didn't build overly complex models and come up with brilliant chains of reasoning based on some mistakes - they just didn't follow any reasoning at all. Wasn't going to get here Quarantines don't work Not likely to mutate Etc.
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They followed the conformism of their experts, that covid elemination was impossible but suppression was necessary to maintain functioning of the medical system and prevent capacity overruns. They weren't incompetent, just dishonest in that this requires long term on and off
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state interventions to suppress flare ups. They just didn't think that a zero covid strategy was workable because of the nature of respiratory diseases. It turns out that this was actually doable as several countries have managed to contain casualties to order of magnitude lower.
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The conventional wisdom was wrong, they now at least recognize that a zero covid strategy was workable and sadly not pursued. If they were actually that stupid, they would be like trump remaining die hards. This isn't an area which requires doctrinaire allegiance to orthodoxy
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so they can adapt to realities in ways they can't with black test scores.
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A defining characteristic of stupidity is simply taking a previous conclusion and applying it without considering the logic and reasoning used to get to the conclusion. The excuse making of "we thought it was impossible to prevent" was just that.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/30/world/europe/ski-party-pandemic-travel-coronavirus.html …
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That is a human heuristic shortcut that everyone makes. It isn't stupidity but rather saving mental processing power. Avoiding all young black males at night works on the same wavelength and it's generally a wise idea. What separates the genuinely stupid is learning a lesson from
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past experiences. The truly stupid will not only learn nothing, but seek to learn nothing.
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They didn't learn anything and didn't seek to. They were stunned at the emergence of new strains because "viruses don't do that" - *old* viruses don't do that, novel ones can. I knew this. What are the experts saving their brainpower for that they're shortcutting that?
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Replying to @CovfefeAnon @Chadyrov
I think you are letting your (well justified) contempt for them cloud your recollection. I don't recall anyone claiming that no new strains would emerge. I'd probably be pissed too if they were driving my people off the edge of the proverbial cliff too, but as stupid as they may
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appear, they are now have near total power, it serves to better understand how they achieved this and how undermine it than to rail against how they are all stupid heads.
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