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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Replying to @mssilverstein @LususNaturae0 and
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 @LususNaturae0 and
Yeah. I don't know what it is, but it's a really deep psychological death wish. If anything, it's a kind of infantile form of denial, that the virus only exists because you believe in it, and if you would just SAY it wasn't scary, it couldn't harm you.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
It's probably the single most illuminative aspect of Trumpism, and the psychology behind it, except that I'm nowhere near qualified to actually analyze it.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
That Ernest Becker stuff seems applicable. People are afraid to die, and it soothes them to see other people die, since that presents as a feeling that they have escaped death.
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There's a certain built in viciousness to human nature that you have to admit demonstrates itself a lot, even while under other circumstances people also demonstrate compassion and community Everyone has the sadistic sense of relief when bad things happen to other people
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Replying to @arthur_affect @KaviMontanaro and
"Tragedy is when I stub my toe, comedy is when you fall into an open sewer and die" That whole meme 20 years ago of talking about the word "schadenfreude" and how the Germans be a word for it because at least they admit it
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