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A confession: it's very strange how quickly I became accustomed to the idea that city officials *could* close my business and ban gatherings in my home — not in the short term, but indefinitely. I was far more livid about the prospect of this at the lockdown 40-day mark...https://twitter.com/webdevMason/status/1255888311794585606 …
I've always supported lockdowns for short-term emergency response. I never anticipated that the justification for rule-by-order would quietly shift from "flatten the curve to avoid overwhelming hospitals" to "achieve <1 daily new cases per 100,000 people," CA's new benchmark.pic.twitter.com/aOKKyJZwSj
In San Francisco, the deaths from drug overdose this year dwarf those from COVID-19 four-to-one, on track for a 60% increase over last year. But tread carefully asking whether there might be a link to the disruption of life and livelihood en masse.https://twitter.com/hknightsf/status/1314705396418838529 …
Most important to me, personally, is remembering that this is not normal. It is not normal for a city official anywhere in the United States to unilaterally declare that allowing a friend or colleague into your home is a crime punishable by fine or imprisonment.pic.twitter.com/XuNi5gnoVF
To cap, I should reiterate that I still take COVID seriously. 10 months in, case fatality globally is still at around 0.5-5%, quite bad given that we've had time to build out test capacity. As with SARS, signs of longer-term damage in recovered patients. Avoid this if you can.
Power corrupts.
Our Constitutional system is a lot more flexible and fragile than is generally understood. And, if you look back to the era of pandemics, you get to cases like Jacobson which pretty much say the state government can do whatever it deems necessary to stop a pandemic.
This should be a lesson in never granting lockdown powers to those in power, as they will always abuse it. (among every other power).
I'm with NotWithAnybody here. This is at the core of our system - means matter more than ends. Executive overreach is a problem whether it's GWB, Obama, or DJT doing it. I think this is also essentially what the SC fight hinges on.
1 new case per 100k is “minimal” and a goal? Wow. Here in New Zealand we exceeded that ONLY from 24 March to 8 April, inclusive. Sixteen days. We’ve only exceeded one new case per *million* on 15 days since 23 April (173 days), and had 0 new cases on 117 of those 173 days.
New Zealand is an Island far removed from the world at large, making it easy to box out infection (obviously). The US is the most visited country on Earth, with numerous poets of entry, and liberal access for visitors the world over.
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