Prioritizing both medical professionals and anyone else whose vital work cannot be done in isolation (e.g., grocers) is a good idea. Struggle sessions are not.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1242959382716928002 …
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Influential people who got it wrong — especially those who did so loudly — should make it clear that they did, if for no other reason than "I was wrong" helps reestablish trust, and there is vanishingly little of it right now. (Yes, many in mass media did get it horribly wrong.)
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But any proposal of retribution in the form of withheld interventions (even if it's rhetorical) for imagined enemy groups rendered homogeneous by mutual antagonism and visceral hatred, is deeply fucked and deserves to be rejected loudly.
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More so than any single person, Trump has created the epistemological collapse we're living through. He's a vile stunted human being, and the world would be better off without him in it. He also should absolutely be prioritized for both testing and treatment.
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The same goes for the Republicans in government who have hallowed out our institutional responses for decades and the Democrats who spun COVID-19 in culture war terms. The cost of their infection is not borne by them alone.
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As for everyone else? No, you do not get to pass sentences on people for either mistakes or bad epistemology — no matter how righteous it makes you feel — especially when the verdict gets rendered by something as inhuman as RNA.
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