1. Quick thread on why @toadmeister is wrong and also perfectly sound in his reasoning. Here we go.
7. There are indeed parallels between the Irish Famine and now when it comes to the mentality of the learned helplessness of the establishment. We have politicians who have never taken risks that have mattered. So they're bunkering but,
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8. Unlike the Famine, this outbreak was entirely known, modelled, preventable and it was a policy choice to proceed with a go slow meltdown of public healthcare. We could have isolated all high risk groups straight away and continued with a working economy.
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9. Instead we have taken the policy equivalent of seeing fields of potatoes rotting in Ireland concluding we simply shouldnt plant any anywhere on the grounds that will flatten the blight curve. Just leaves you with no potatoes and hungry people.
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@toadmeister is simply highlighting the choices that now need to be made because we didn;t make decisions earlier. Conservatives tend to preserve liberty better than libertarians for this reason, seeing the need for early painful choices so we don't have a full meltdownDeze collectie tonen -
11. That these choices he moots, that we should not rush to allocate inefficiently, are unpleasant, are EXACTLY why we should have acted to prevent the scenario happening. "Unthinkable scenario" = OK, think it, shit it, then avoid it. Don't wait for the tide to drown you.
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12. Anyone who was banging the drum on this, like
@bowgroup, is morally in the clear. We called this early, we've seen other countries not go down this rabbit hole. Those obsessed with vociferous liberty (and yes it does exists) and those obsessed with treating us as....Deze collectie tonen -
13....the masses have both screwed us. There was as always int he world of grown ups, a fine line, based on risk management and evidence, that you take limited early interventions against your better nature that are in the end the better judgement. You don't get to be angry at...
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@toadmeister if you weren't doing anything a month or two back to stop us getting to this fork in the road. He's just the man on the moral turnpike. Pay the toll. You took this road a long time back.Deze collectie tonen -
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@toadmeister is wrong for saying the obvious price to pay for procrastination has to be paid on time nontheless. If you're offended, think of people who've actually lost relatives to this. Your triggered hurt is worth f**k all to meDeze collectie tonen -
16. and if you're a journo that's spent the last 2 months writing about Harry and Meghan, or filling column space with mortality bingo, idly reporting the death count rising and the share prices crashing, you've done way more damage than
@toadmeister ever could by talking choicesDeze collectie tonen
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