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Proactively shutting things down and restricting freedoms are politically impossible to implement. There's no incentive for any single politician to do anything
by ensiferum 7y ago
Proactively shutting things down and restricting freedoms are politically impossible to implement. There's no incentive for any single politician to do anything like this because if it actually worked there'd be no visibility to the general public and thus nobody would understand what they actually did.
It's like the proverbial secret goverment agency that stops a bomb from going off and nobody knows what they did.
In politics this mean that the general public would only see the downsides of such measures and not the gains. This would not get a single politician re-elected.
Therefore in terms of politics it's much better and safer to be reactive only rather than proactive. Later speech can include statements "we could not have possibly known", "there was no indication that...", "it was a complete surprise...", "we acted as quickly as possbile..."
- lb0 7y agoNot true, because there will be enough "test groups" due to this thinking already (and I believe now even the last one realized that this will now go everyhwere). China locked down around ~400 known infections, in terms of spread we will soon learn what it means to have only done similar but much less strict lockdown at 1000, 4000, 8000 infections, actually it is all a number game, and the numbers were sharp enough and visible for everyone during February already.. we will pay a lot four our stupidity and "politically impossible", we said this since start of the year about Chinas measures, but what was politically impossible will now take longer and almost reach same strictness levels here..
- selimthegrim 7y agoLol Cuomo at his press conference today was saying "Don't be reactive, be productive"