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It's fairly likely that this will no longer be "a pandemic" by November, and that nobody will even be able to raise this as a concern in any sense. The bigger
by jerf 7y ago
It's fairly likely that this will no longer be "a pandemic" by November, and that nobody will even be able to raise this as a concern in any sense.
The bigger problem is really with the Democratic primary, which is happening now. A critical element of elections is that they have to not just be fair, but be seen to be fair. How is the primary going to be seen to be fair if some significant number of the delegates are elected from elections that occurred while the electing states are essentially locked down? No matter what you do, it will be seen as unfair somehow.
- samstave 7y agoCorrect. They are using this to again snuff Bernie.
- shadowgovt 7y agoWhat "they" and how are they using it? I have to assume you don't mean "The Democratic National Committee infected people with COVID-19." But I don't think I can puzzle out what you mean.
- samstave 7y agoThe DNC doesn't want bernie to have the nomination. The want status quo Biden.
- shadowgovt 7y agoIt's really uncharitable to suggest they're "using" it then, since they don't control the pandemic. What should they do differently from what's being done right now?
- catalogia 7y agoDoesn't Bernie's supporter base skew younger than Biden's? It seems to me the average Bernie supporter has less to fear from corona than the average Biden supporter. If anything, fear of corona should suppress turnout for Biden more than for Bernie.
- dhosek 7y agoOh please, Bernie has been underperforming his 2016 results consistently. And the vaunted big youth turnout has been absent.
- dboreham 7y agoAgreed, probably (hopefully) some combination of: drug therapies succeeding; mitigation measures succeeding; seasonal variability; accumulating immunity; normalization of risk of disease impact, will eventually get us to a new normal steady state. e.g. we happily accept some risk of being killed in an airplane or road traffic accident even though those things could almost certainly be made less risky than they are now. We're ok with some non-zero risk, provided it's reasonably constant and known.