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The mobilization (you could say weaponization) of social pressure campaigns has been, by far, the most impressive thing I’ve observed throughout this entire sag
by zaroth 7y ago
The mobilization (you could say weaponization) of social pressure campaigns has been, by far, the most impressive thing I’ve observed throughout this entire saga.
I don’t mean “impressive” in a good way, but that’s in the eye of the beholder.
- walterbell 7y agoHave you seen "Turn" on Netflix? There was a similar civil-war dynamic in that series as social pressure was mobilized, dividing friends and families. If this keeps up, it could trigger economic migration. Sweden shows a very similar curve to places that shutdown. Some of their rates are higher as expected, since they are time-shifting contagion. But neither their healthcare nor economy has been devastated to the extent of neighbors. The volume and velocity of opportunism in this crisis has been a sight to behold. It will take years to catalog what happened and develop a societal immune system to the large-scale manipulation of entire populations with dubious models and data.