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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
I waded onto FB thru spouse's account a few weeks back. It's remarkable from an anthropological perspective. You can see the people who can think through this thing and spot the essential issue. It's roughly 1/3 of people I observed. Then you have a third that see everything thru a political lens. These people are the morons of the bunch, arguing about blame endlessly. Then you have the scared people who seem to have thought that if they just locked down for a bit, the disease would miss them, like a modern Passover. That last group doesn't seem to grasp the concept of viruses very well, and they seem to be sincerely confused and frightened. Nevertheless, their holding onto an ignorance regarding the operation of viruses - a very attractive ignorance, or perhaps delusion - endangers the rest of us by causing people to think an endless lockdown works.
Alito has compelled our governor to explain in a filing ordered to be sent to SCOTUS on Monday how he selected certain businesses for mandatory closure while exempting others. I don't think he was political, but the lobbyists and people below him are very political. Many unions and trade groups are going to find themselves investigated after this situation ends. The selection of winners and losers was arbitrary in numerous regards.
(I love that throughout this I have watched a developer build an entire housing development down the street, and another put one up a few miles further, despite there being a ban on construction services. I'd be appalled to see a bar, restaurant, or club owner defy the governor as that's high risk stuff. But the ban on construction was silly and I think done opportunistically at the behest of unions. Good on those developers for borrowing from the Uber business model and openly ignoring it.)
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Here's the thing, though. Close to everywhere else in the world, aside from the UK and Sweden, has managed to use lockdowns, masks and testing to actually shrink their case count. They aren't racing toward a mislabeled "herd immunity" that is actually just everyone getting sick as soon as possible. Why couldn't we do that? Well, partly do to poor preparation, leadership and messaging. We, like the UK, stumbled before we even got to the starting line.
Meanwhile, I went to the grocery store this morning. In the parking lot, I saw a guy walk out with three items (wasn't wearing a mask but might just taken it off). The first people I saw inside was a elderly couple shopping together with no mask. Maybe we're just too stupid as a people to grasp the basics of minimizing exposure.
