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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Replying to @HenryTarquin @arthur_affect and
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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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
Here's something you appear to not be aware of, Henry: viruses & their behavior are an inescapable fact of nature, while the economy is something humans invented.
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"The economy" is shorthand for "all productive human activity", and that is NOT something our species invented.
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Replying to @HenryTarquin @mcjulie and
Besides, even if viruses are as old as the hills and the economy is "invented"... what follows?
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It means it's not actually a law of nature of any kind that people who used to work in restaurants must now become homeless or starve if there are no restaurants Restaurants were an arbitrary tradition we made up in the first place
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