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262k dead, +2313 yesterday. If this were actually a price being paid for "freedom" in some real sense, like people taking risks and dying to establish a new space settlement across the galaxy, it would at least feel meaningful. This just feels like callous mutual abandonment.
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The thing is, there is a good-faith use of the freedom vs. nanny-state narrative that is being deployed that does not actually apply here. "Freedom" is just code for "fuck you, I got mine."
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Like there are real problems about say using Taiwan as a comparator. It's a nice little island democracy and I like people from there. But there is a genuine cost to being Taiwan that the US is not willing to pay for good reason. But that's not the actual relevant cost here 🤬
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ie, doing the things Taiwan did/is doing won't actually make you Taiwan (or Singapore or New Zealand or whatever) and ruin the ability to build innovative companies like Google or NASA missions.
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And it's not like the US has a problem with ostensibly pro-social confinement/freedom restriction on flimsy pretexts. Highest incarceration rates with rampant covid outbreaks in prisons. It's just reserved for offenses like having a bit of marijuana on you.
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If you were exposed and don't attempt to self-isolate, it's a kind of terrorism by apathy in service of a hedonistic-freedom ideology.
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Regular terrorism: telling a young recruit to your ideology to plant a bomb Stochastic terrorism: giving an inflammatory speech that inspires some moron to plant a bomb Apathetic terrorism: refusing to know things that might cast your negligent homicides as first-degree murders
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