No, they're evil They're hoping to preserve the equity value of their businesses before they can cash out and run to a fortress somewhere by fucking someone else over and they don't care how many nameless pawns die in the process
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
There's a number of people who ARE crazy or dumb who make useful idiots for them but it's the evil ones pulling the strings who should really hold our attention
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Let's also put it another way: the lockdown stuff wasn't some inevitable response. It was a direct result of inaction on the part of the leadership in the US, which took the position that keeping the economy open was paramount.
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
Had the lockdown orders come a week earlier, we'd probably be on our way out by now since the effects are pretty dramatic (exponential growth being what it is)
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
The GOP has taken the active position that the federal government has at best a limited role and can be allowed to be taken over by cronies who F-up the response
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
I mean, Trump could have just let the CDC et al run the response; he could have stayed out of the way. He'd look like a genius and his polling numbers would be up
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
But he can't, for all sorts of reasons. In any case, the Swedish model isn't so great, but South Korea was willing to do a lot of testing and such and that allowed them to NOT close down an economy
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
A country of 50 million people has a case rate 1/10 that of the US. And it wasn't a super-expensive response, or even all that complicated. Australia did a better job under an ostensibly conservative gov't.
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
So this whole notion of separating the economics from the pandemic response is kind of silly. We have what amounts to disaster capitalism here in the US, and this is the result.
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
Even now, in the heart of the pandemic zone in the US I can think of a lot of things that would allow for partial "reopening" that would go a long way towards helping track the epidemic and be do-able, but it would require leadership at state, city and federal levels.
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Mass testing. Contact tracing. Centralized quarantine for all positives.
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Replying to @arthur_affect @HenryTarquin and
Yes, my thought was open the schools and a week before classes start in September (when people come in to fill out forms and such) test everyone who walks in the door. The results would let you target the kids who should stay home for 2 weeks.
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Replying to @Mad_Science_Guy @arthur_affect and
The contact tracing is easier (most kids are not going too far from home nor to work, even HS students who work its not that hard) and you know where everyone lives already. That gets you a pretty exact map of positives.
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