No matter how you look at it: our governments must have been informed in early January that COVID-19 would spread in our countries, and our governments failed to act on that knowledge. Large parts of our governments don't actually work and need to be dismantled and rebuilt.
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Replying to @Plinz
Government regardless of party has become exceedingly anti-science. Repeatedly ignoring & discrediting everything from public health to climate change and economic policy’s. 4th estate, Main stream media has become a lobbying arm & continues to uphold a propaganda republic.
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Replying to @suketuCpatel23
I don't believe for a moment that our government and military do not make use of their access to the best scientific advisors in the world. The CIA must have had people on the ground in Wuhan. I am sure everyone was briefed in early January.
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Replying to @Plinz
Of course, DARPA & pentagon as well. If state & federal officials don’t heed the advice though, I’d say that is anti-science. If they believe it & don’t act accordingly then is it all corporatism? We’ve been unprepared in PPE, vaccine research, vents, public health for decades.
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Replying to @suketuCpatel23
Why call it anti-science of corporatism when it's just people following their actual incentives, and the constraints that emerge over other people following their incentives as well?
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Replying to @Plinz
What are the incentives? I don’t think any are to send people to their death. The trends of federal & state action is only after they see the deaths & cases accumulate. I’m sure you’ve seen articles on how all warnings were ignored. Wouldn’t you agree scientists weren’t believed?
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Replying to @suketuCpatel23
It was in the governments best interest to collect all necessary information, and not everyone working near the capitol is clinically stupid. Can you think of reasons that would reward the government for acting later than sooner despite knowing what would happen?
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Replying to @Plinz
That’s not to say tax/job loss, stock market aren’t in the decision making. But there’s more involved then just incentives when you need to see the damage before acting. Im in NYC w/family in healthcare treating Covid, there were warnings to prevent this.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/11/opinion/sunday/coronavirus-hospitals-bronx.html …
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Replying to @suketuCpatel23
You still seem to think that it is the main purpose of government to alleviate human suffering. You can take nothing for granted. Government is not a moral agent, it is a platform to negotiate the conditions of species survival between conflicting stakeholders.
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Replying to @Plinz
We would probably disagree on the role of government, I’d interpret the constitution differently. But there isn’t a much of a moral agency difference from doing the exact same actions as today, just a few weeks earlier, especially when the warnings were there for months.
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From a functional perspective, the constitution is a bunch of words, not all of which are enforceable, of which not all are in someone's interest to pursue enforcement.
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Replying to @Plinz
In what way do you want to rebuild our gov then? Do you want introduce more enforcement? I’d love to dismantle gov and start over as well. My perspective is that it’s far more pragmatic to hold gov accountable to decisions & policy based off rational science. Clear effectiveness
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