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> The UK has some of the best epidemiology schools and experience, thanks to a tradition harking back to the British Empire expanding in very dangerous lands.
by buboard 7y ago
> The UK has some of the best epidemiology schools and experience, thanks to a tradition harking back to the British Empire expanding in very dangerous lands.
This is not an argument in 2020. This is the kind of exceptionalism i m talking about
- toyg 7y agoI’m not the one saying that, Italian experts are saying it, because it increases the level of bafflement they experience when looking at the (non-)approach the UK is taking at the moment. I am extremely critical of this (non-)approach, I’m just trying to figure out where it comes from and this might well be a factor, sadly. After 2016, I’ve learnt never to underestimate the often-misplaced sense of superiority that the English upper classes have drilled into the wider population for the last 200 years, and the degree of detachment of their elites.