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How can a ban only on nonessential travel affect aid workers and experts, who are clearly essential?
by staticautomatic 7y ago
How can a ban only on nonessential travel affect aid workers and experts, who are clearly essential?
- throwanem 7y agoHave you never seen a bureaucracy in a hurry? It is not, to borrow a word, agile.
- staticautomatic 7y agoI don't understand what your point is. Are you saying the bans are not limited to non-essential travel? Because everything I've read about them thus far has said they are.
- topmonk 7y agoHow about in a nearly empty airport?
- diffeomorphism 7y agoBecause now they have to go through all the paperwork, waiting and hassle to document that they "clearly" are essential... several times. Bureaucracy is never, ever frictionless.
- staticautomatic 7y agoThat may well be the case. I don't have any firsthand knowledge of the process. Do you?
- throwanem 7y agoDo you have a strong prior for large bureaucracies, especially at their interfaces with one another, not being sluggish? If so, how do you come by it? If not, whence comes the doubt whose benefit you seem so anxious to give?
- staticautomatic 7y agoMy comment is rooted in a general reluctance to make assumptions about things that have empirical or theoretically provable answers, particularly ones that could be obtained without much effort. Some people call it "science."
- throwanem 7y agoOh, well. Shouldn't you be citing me into silence, then? This mere unsupported assertion ill befits a man of science, after all.
- diffeomorphism 7y agoYes, I have lots of knowledge of bureaucracy. Do you have any firsthand knowledge to expect that this one specifically will be entirely unlike any other bureaucracy in existence?