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Yes, I admit I’m sensitive about this personally. I think shaming people for not being good enough causes a lot of toxic side-effects. I know sometimes the right thing to do *is* to try harder, but there are ways to encourage effort that install less malware, I think.
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I suspect almost all the failures can be attributed to funding cuts over the years rather than incompetence. It is highly disingenuous of small government types to undermine state and international agency funding and then attribute failures to incompetence.
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I’m generally a market-based solutions guy myself, but it truly pisses me off to see holier-than-thou private enterprise shills acting like their world is peopled by an entirely superior species. It’s the same species.
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To be clear, I’m with you on this. I’m pushing against the narrative “install a businessman as COVID19 czar because businessmen are Good”. I don’t think businessmen are categorically better people than public servants.
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