It’s depressing to watch Trump transparently set up chloroquine as his winning move for November. It’s a free option for him in a way it isn’t for anyone else. Near-perfect textbook heads I win tails you lose. All the risk is on the doctors figuring out how to use it safely.
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Complex systems problems evolve in messy, nearly ungovernable ways. It’s rarely possible to ever sort out the story of how things happened and come to a blame/credit consensus. We’ll be arguing about this history and it’s counterfactuals for decades and still get nowhere.
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But whether this is a growth experience or a lifelong trauma for people in it depends on how you will answer the question the brits Queen cleverly posed: “I hope in the years to come everyone will be able to take pride in how they responded to this challenge." Cunning old lady.
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The cost of Trump in this situation is that far fewer people will be acting in ways that they can take pride in, and grow from. He is reliably the worst person he can be in everything he does, and brings out the same in others in proportion to the attention they pay to him.
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And sadly you can no longer tune him out easily, since every press briefing has a chance of producing actual important information, you have to endure a daily Trump rally bullshit circus to get it, from Fauci or one of the other people of substance he’s jealously BIRGing off
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There’s no way one could argue a better human would have been a worse leader.
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Complex systems are unpredictable
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yup. It’s an “all politicians are bad” machismo that keeps ppl from admitting that some might be worse
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