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In SF, people are still not permitted to gather in groups of >12. Even outdoors. Even with full mask & distancing compliance. Even for weddings. Even for funerals. Whatever you think of the protests, they have *got* to be wearing down the sense of solidarity required for this.
Many of us knew or suspected from the beginning that a lot of what has been dictated by COVID health orders couldn't effectively be enforced on individuals in the US. We have been relying on enforcement on businesses/orgs + a shared social responsibility. The latter is shattered
Basically, the sum of the available toolkit in the US amounts only to half-measures, and those measures are the same ones that are leaving [probably lifelong] scars on the earning potential of new entrants to the labor market + upwardly-mobile blue collar biz owners + their staff
Meanwhile, people who follow the rules can protect *themselves* from the virus, but at the cost of nearly every protective factor we've identified against the ever-rising "deaths of despair": suicide, alcoholism and drug abuse. And without broader compliance, COVID still spikes.
At this point, urban centers need to figure out what policy is sustainable on a timescale of *years* and start moving toward that. The days of "if we just do this for 6-8 weeks..." are over. Cities like SF got their 2 months of solid compliance and they largely squandered it.
It’s okay. Science has said it’s safe.
Why do people in SF just take beating after beating? Like you all have taken these beatings for a decade now and just complain. Do SF people just love this treatment or not have a backbone?
OK, but... if you go that route, then you do actually have to explain why it's *not* worth the potential price for people to get the full support of their friend and family network when burying their mothers or fathers or children.
The solidarity, but also the realism. You get public health officials taking about deliberately inducing starvation, knowing it’s total signaling divorced from reality, because *so is actual policy*. We’re drowning in fantasy, and each further retreat makes it harder to emerge.
All the same, normies aren't engulfed in that fantasy. It's only the overeducated/brainwashed who don't realize how bananas this is.
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