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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      He keeps relentlessly focusing attention on his banning China flights to anchor his claim that his first response was a roaring success instead of an epic bungling. Expect a similar “I won big with chloroquine when others doubted” relentless narrative in November.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      If there are elections in November at all, now in doubt, chloroquine will be The Wall. About 98% of any success will be attributed to it. PPE and distancing and frontline battles will be forgotten in his version of story. Story will be “I banned China and gave you chloroquine”

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      It is spiritually exhausting to watch him suck petty sustenance for himself regardless of costs to others. It’s the opposite of the sense of nourishment you might get by looking at a great piece of art or an exceptional music performance.

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    4. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      Media falling right into his trap too. Dumbasses at NYT now hating on chloroquine (“unproven” is practically as insult in a headline, not a disinterested scientific qualifier) simply because he’s backing that horse. No, you ignore his backing and report on clinical trials.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      He’s adding almost nothing of substance to the chloroquine subplot. He’s mainly writing himself into that story as a hero and they’re falling for it. Notice how he’s distancing himself from the tougher procurement challenges like PPE. Those failures will be for states to own.

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    6. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      And all this for what? Re-election redemption. Courageous option which he can’t even see: work the actual hardest problems, not the easiest election win options. Get out of the way of people who know what they’re doing. Not impossible. A few leaders seem to be doing that.

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    7. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      The amount of spiritual energy that will be needed to repair the soul-suckage this mega-pest will have inflicted by 2024 is hard to estimate. People have simply gotten used to the emotional labor load he inflicts on the world. Like a metastasized Darth Clippy in MS-Office.

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    8. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      I suspect his legacy will be collective amnesia. His base will form a cult after he exits. The rest of us won’t bother litigating the history of his misrule. We’ll just try to forget it and move on. The story of 2016-24 will be for historians a generation removed to write.

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    9. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      If you’re a person of substance yourself, you might honestly wonder what this rant is about and think “trump derangement syndrome”. You might (correctly) argue that a better human being in White House right now would not necessarily have meant a better outcome. Maybe even worse.

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    10. Shripriya Mahesh‏ @Shripriya Apr 5
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      There’s no way one could argue a better human would have been a worse leader.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Apr 5
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      Complex systems are unpredictable

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      • Dave Waite britney was right 魔法BOZO族GOBLIN ☆ ODDS Shripriya Mahesh 🆂🅷Ⓐ🆁🅺🅴🆈@HOME🇺🇸🇬🇧🇮🇪🇪🇺🇮🇱
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        1. Shripriya Mahesh‏ @Shripriya Apr 5
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          Fair. But at least the intent would have been better. A genuine desire to help the people. Versus just himself and re-election chances.

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          different systems w varying degrees of unpredictability some systems may be clearly predictable to some and unpredictable for others

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