I wish a solid leader would emerge as the open-early-but-smartly case. We now have a dangerously unbalanced public conversation of a competent but weak public figure arguing for the cautious long-shutdown case (Fauci) and a powerful idiot arguing for the open early case (Trump).
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Right now, we have an idiot in charge whose idea of rapid opening is to paint wistful pictures of "packed churches" and Hollywood speechifying rhetoric about "this country was built to go to work"... the kind of talk that will lead to grand gesture reopenings that blow up.
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What I'm most concerned about is that an **ill-conceived** hasty re-opening without adequate instrumentation or agility is done just in time to create a false dawn long enough to see Trump through November, and then a bigger surge and crash that takes even longer to open up from
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This is not going to happen in the US probably. Some other comparably liberal democratic country will show the way and offer America a face-saving way to imitate and follow, with some personal branding flourishes :(
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Well, Gavin Newsom is *saying* the right things to be re-opening thought leader, but I have trouble trusting him. Fun family split. I like Garcetti and am suspicious of Newsom. Wife likes Newsom and is suspicious of Garcetti.
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Hasn't this already been proven in Asia? Individualist countries are in for a rude surprise if collectivist countries have already worked out a process to address it, but they refuse to even consider it. They have the playbook.
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Ok tweeted too early, I agree with your take!
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