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I thought this article was interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ https://www.th

by ethbro 7y ago

I thought this article was interesting: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coronavirus-and-blindness-authoritarianism/606922/ https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2020/02/coron... Particularly the point about "Why build hospitals?" Because in strongly centralized, command political systems, grand projects are one of the few things done well. And so crisis management becomes "What can we build, to show we're taking it seriously?"

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This makes a lot of sense. Even outside of centralised, command political systems many of the responses seem to be in the vein of "what can we do to show we're taking it seriously?" Many actions such as the travel restrictions have gone directly against public health advice, but are easy to implement and politically very successful.