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> I mean this kind of should have happened weeks ago, and the executive branch is a bit of a panicked joke. And I feel like these sorts of virtue-signaling rem
by gwright 7y ago
> I mean this kind of should have happened weeks ago, and the executive branch is a bit of a panicked joke.
And I feel like these sorts of virtue-signaling remarks makes it harder to focus on what to do now. It isn't even clear that anyone would have listened to the federal government weeks ago. Look at the criticism that was made when Chinese flights were restricted in January.
- perl4ever 7y ago"It isn't even clear that anyone would have listened to the federal government weeks ago" "Anyone" being disproportionately the half of the country that likes to sneer at "virtue signaling". It's unseemly to blame the other half for that. Parts of the country just will not believe even now, because it must be another fake media thing like the "Russian hoax".
- gwright 7y ago> It's unseemly to blame the other half for that. Who is "blaming" anyone? Suggesting that there was no public consensus for extreme actions 6 or 8 weeks ago isn't blaming anyone for anything it is just stating a fact. And your last comment seems to be repeating the lie that the President called the virus a hoax, which he did not. He called the unfounded accusations of his lack of actions another hoax. It is unrcontionable to be spreading that misinformation at this point.
- perl4ever 7y ago"repeating the lie that the President called the virus a hoax" I did not. But my comment was flagged so you can make up anything you want about it, so have a cookie.
- dang 7y agoPlease don't take HN threads further into political flamewar. We don't need that here. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html