You can just personally become a better and more skilled driver to compensate
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ysabel and
Fuckstains like this talking like "self-isolating" is even a *possible task* at all in a world where most "normal, healthy people" have completely stopped trying Try social distancing in a supermarket where nobody else is doing it, see how long you can keep it up
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Replying to @arthur_affect @ysabel and
All of which is to say, too - we can figure out what the right balance is, where we can limit the spread of the virus without focusing on the most onerous and least efficacious aspects of a quarantine. But that solution is not 'idk, do whatever'
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
If we decided that schools are worth keeping open above all other public places - which may be a good call - we have to do things like shut down bars and restaurants, which we're not doing.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
And an actual committed lockdown of 2-3 months would have been much more effective than 8 months of partial maybe lockdowns. "Why do we have to lock down AGAIN!" Because we never did in the first place!!
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Replying to @LususNaturae0 @mssilverstein and
The USA is a bigger country than Taiwan or South Korea, sure, and a much less centralized one with multiple points of entry for the virus into the country And yet a harsh, early lockdown in February or March plus extensive test-and-trace could've prevented almost all of this
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
Obama's people made Trump's people do a whole training exercise for this, emphasizing how rapid, decisive response in the first days when a virus hits your shores makes all the difference
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
Trump knew this, and yet he listened to the libertarian fucksticks who think every use of big-government authority should be done slowly and with great reluctance and the most important thing is not to spook the stock market Hence "It'll disappear in the summer, like magic"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @LususNaturae0 and
Somehow, I think this transcended even the Libertarians. Like, they deserve a lot of the blame, but it's not even ideological. It was a tantrum, a mass-scale DON'T WANNA that killed hundreds of thousands.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
Like, they also didn't take the libertarian solutions of encouraging masks, etc.
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The thing is that even ideological anarcho-capitalists still live in a world where other people's actions can affect you, via "the free market" And this childish baby form of libertarianism refuses to even accept that, when the effects are negative
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
Hence these people being fucking *furious* at "fearmongering" that keeps people away from bars and restaurants and brings the stock market down even despite the government demanding these businesses reopen If they could they would actually make it illegal to stay home
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
It's the same as their whining over "cancel culture", as though large numbers of people deciding they don't like you and don't want to buy your book is the same as being "censored" Coming this close to demanding the government force you to buy it, or censor people criticizing it
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