But I've absorbed enough to see your point and let me concede it (since I already agreed) in this form:
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
IF we adopt the greater-freedom Swedish model for our COVID-19 response, there will be costs; and the best way to ameliorate these will be...
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The state footing the bill for healthcare, state welfare for the jobless, etc.
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One can grant all that and still think that the Swedish model is still BETTER than relevant alternatives, even if we don't do that.
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You can think whatever you please, but Arthur has mentioned enough factual arguments that it seems thinking that without offering counterarguments is rather unreasonable.
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Replying to @RayTski @arthur_affect and
I'm not doing that because I don't actually disagree. But people who do disagree would, I suspect, not offer counterarguments...
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So much as offer what they take for be countervailing CONSIDERATIONS (i.e. reasons they think the lockdown situation is intolerable).
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Then they would be unreasonable. QED
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Maybe, but if so, it's for reasons largely unrelated to the stuff Chu is talking about.
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One thing they might be thinking: prolonged lockdown risks an economic collapse so dire it would devastate us far more than coronavirus.
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Yeah and that's incredibly stupid The idea that a full uncontrolled burn, the death rate hitting its maximum level at maximum speed, WON'T just lead to that exact same economic depression you're afraid of - because people WILL LOCK DOWN AGAIN - is a fucking fairytale
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
We know how it works, we've seen it happen The second wave of the flu in the fall of 1918 didn't have everyone just shrug and go "Ah, whatever, it's just death"
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Conservatives are fucking literally insane, delusional about this shit The way they think the economy works Every depression that comes along, they believe in a miraculous one-quarter recovery that would happen if you'd just "let the market work", because the market is magic
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