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Extremely well said. I agree with you it's very hard to have a conversation about this because the science has been politicized. We tend to think of politiciz
by JPKab 7y ago
Extremely well said. I agree with you it's very hard to have a conversation about this because the science has been politicized. We tend to think of politicization of science as a GOP thing for global warming denial. And that's definitely a massive reason that I really don't like the GOP. It's interesting because nuclear power has a similar paradigm with the Democratic party.
And now here we are at these silly extremes on opening versus keeping everything locked down. Neither of which are remotely reasonable.
I'm lucky that I live in Colorado. unlike a lot of the Democratic politicians in other parts of the country Colorado has a tradition of business savvy leaders. Our governor has been excellent on this so far and very balanced in my opinion. He has definitely been consulting with business leaders because he consulted with my CTO and this was clearly a long laundry list of meetings that day with various business leaders.
I do think it's crazy to view this either 100% through public health or 100% through economic health. There has to be a balance.
What I know for sure is that the full lockdowns are not sustainable. Things that aren't sustainable aren't going to work for very long. That's the definition of unsustainable.
Really really frightening to hear that a government official in charge of so many people viewed research out of Columbia as a Trump talking point. WTF.