The bigger problem seems to be that 30-40% of the country, at minimum, is eager to oppose anything that might slightly inconvenience them or (not and!) moderately improve anyone else's life. Say we somehow had uniform, bipartisan consensus back in March 2020 that we were going to do a nationwide mask mandate and a real lockdown for six weeks. Is there any chance the tens of millions of hooting chuds out there would have gone along with that?
Every day it gets harder to fault AES states for attempts at mass political re-education.
We did have a "real lockdown" for 4-6 weeks back in March/April 2020. The problem is that a lockdown isn't enough. You have to provide places to isolate people, away from healthy household members as much as possible, as well as robust contact tracing and both targeting and mass testing. "Everybody STAY HOME" and ride it out doesn't work - it takes way, way longer than "two week" or even "six weeks" for a serious outbreak to die down without actual intervention, not just isolation. Vietnam was doing testing of 3rd and 4th degree contacts, for instance. In America, we just did cargo cult bullshit.
Good points, although I don't know how "real" the lockdown was. Maybe it was real in a few cities, but in a lot of places you had Gamestops open and a good chunk of people still having parties.
The bigger problem seems to be that 30-40% of the country, at minimum, is eager to oppose anything that might slightly inconvenience them or (not and!) moderately improve anyone else's life. Say we somehow had uniform, bipartisan consensus back in March 2020 that we were going to do a nationwide mask mandate and a real lockdown for six weeks. Is there any chance the tens of millions of hooting chuds out there would have gone along with that?
Every day it gets harder to fault AES states for attempts at mass political re-education.
We did have a "real lockdown" for 4-6 weeks back in March/April 2020. The problem is that a lockdown isn't enough. You have to provide places to isolate people, away from healthy household members as much as possible, as well as robust contact tracing and both targeting and mass testing. "Everybody STAY HOME" and ride it out doesn't work - it takes way, way longer than "two week" or even "six weeks" for a serious outbreak to die down without actual intervention, not just isolation. Vietnam was doing testing of 3rd and 4th degree contacts, for instance. In America, we just did cargo cult bullshit.
Good points, although I don't know how "real" the lockdown was. Maybe it was real in a few cities, but in a lot of places you had Gamestops open and a good chunk of people still having parties.
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