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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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
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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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
Then they would be unreasonable. QED
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Replying to @RayTski @arthur_affect and
Maybe, but if so, it's for reasons largely unrelated to the stuff Chu is talking about.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
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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Replying to @HenryTarquin @RayTski and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
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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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
This quick bounceback NEVER HAPPENS - it never has happened in all of history - and it's always the government's fault for intervening If only they'd just LISTEN for once and "let the market work"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
I don't know what's worse, if they believe there actually will be a miracle cure generated by the ferment of market capitalism, or if they think the presence of shiny consumerist gewgaws will allow us to just accept endemic COVID-19 as the new normal
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"As I sit here in this Applebee's with my freshly styled hair from Supercuts typing this on my new iPhone I stood in line for at Best Buy like in the good old days, I realized there are more important things in life than having grandparents"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
"In fact, I don't really care that much how long I live either, as long as my years on Earth are rich and full of market transactions that boost the national GDP 50 is the new 70, boys! Carpe diem! Live fast, die young, spend freely!"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Never trust an invisible hand. But, don’t worry it isn’t feeling you up. It’s nothing sexual. It just wants your wallet.
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