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> we clearly saw this coming in 2019 The overwhelming majority of people, the common person on the street, did not see it coming. A week or two before my stat
by jimhefferon 7y ago
> we clearly saw this coming in 2019
The overwhelming majority of people, the common person on the street, did not see it coming.
A week or two before my state got locked down I was at a meeting and for Other Business I said we need to establish how to hold next week's meeting online. Everyone there looked down at their hands, clearly thinking they were in the presence of a nut. Finally someone said, in the tone you talk to your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving who is a Fox News nut, "Well if a lockdown would ever happen we can email about it then."
- pjc50 7y agoHave you investigated how you get your news as a result? How was Italy at the time of that meeting?
- jimhefferon 7y agoForgive me, I'm not sure what you mean. I perceive that the difference between them and me is professional training; I am a mathematician, in the Theory of Computation, and their training is in areas without the same consciousness about exponential growth. The meeting was a Ham Radio club and so draws from a wide range including both white collar and blue. I didn't mean to talk down about the folks there, who are generally intelligent and thoughtful, and I only told that story to illustrate that the typical person was not thinking about hunkering even that close to the lockdown moment.