The 3.3 million unemployment claims today are a direct result of everyone from Morning Joe to Tucker Carlson repeating the baseless predictions of the Imperial College as fact.
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Where data cannot answer our questions, we fall back on how humans normally process information: on tradition & instinct. We are wired to act on anecdote & fear when we lack comprehensive data. That wiring has helped us survive as a species since time immemorial.
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No one will be able to say that they weren’t warned.
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Yes exactly, I said that. React first. However, the nature of our processes is that once someone acts on information it becomes frozen, because nobody can ever admit a mistake, even one made by taking sensible precautions in a crisis.
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Our political information ecosystem today contains no space for "I was right then but circumstances have changed since then so our decision must change."
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It’s also an extremely high risk move to act particularly in ways that have no scientific basis, like locking down states
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I must have missed all this in 2009 when unemployment claims maxed out at 700K, quickly recovered, and we didn't piss away 6 trillion.
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