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If the post-9/11 hysteria is any indication, it will never get better.

analognoise 7y ago
That's what I don't get. 9/11 caused us to embark on a 20 year war effort. This is like a 9/11 every other day, but it's over and we should all get back to work to keep the economy going - what?
- tartuffe78 7y ago
  It might be that we respond more rationally to health crises than we do to terrorism.
- WJW 7y ago
  Who would you declare on? Nature for evolving new viruses every few years? Some people really want to blame China, but it's not as easy to invade a global superpower with a permanent seat on the UN security council, nuclear weapons and super intricate ties to the world's economy as it is to invade a few underdeveloped countries in the middle east with barely any air force.
  - nl 7y ago
    I don't think that comment is a call for war or anything like that. They are expressing amazement at those saying "it's all fine - lets go back to normal". The "9/11 everyday" is referring to the daily death toll (it's slightly lower now, but the point is well made).
    - analognoise 7y ago
      Yeah I definitely wasn't calling for war or anything of the sort.
  - rjsw 7y ago
    Just copy 9/11, invade a country that borders China /s.
  - moron4hire 7y ago
    If you apply the principle of "assuming good faith", then the GP is clearly taking about spending and mobilization of effort. And I agree. The US government has been negligent in their response to the pandemic.
unishark 7y ago
As a longtime germophobe, who is quite sure I have caught trip-ruining flu's and colds on multiple occasions from inconsiderate passengers on flights, hysteria could lead to some real improvements this time. Screening of sick passengers, extreme filtering of recirculated air, roomier airports rather than packing a dozen gates 12 feet apart at the end of the building (LAX), and while I'm dreaming, some social distancing between seats. They can make everyone wear full-on gas masks the entire trip. Still working on how to deal with bathrooms. At the very least, airlines can change those shitty change/refund policies that keep people from delaying their trip when they get sick.

That's what I don't get. 9/11 caused us to embark on a 20 year war effort. This is like a 9/11 every other day, but it's over and we should all get back to work to keep the economy going - what?

tartuffe78 7y ago
It might be that we respond more rationally to health crises than we do to terrorism.
WJW 7y ago
Who would you declare on? Nature for evolving new viruses every few years? Some people really want to blame China, but it's not as easy to invade a global superpower with a permanent seat on the UN security council, nuclear weapons and super intricate ties to the world's economy as it is to invade a few underdeveloped countries in the middle east with barely any air force.
- nl 7y ago
  I don't think that comment is a call for war or anything like that. They are expressing amazement at those saying "it's all fine - lets go back to normal". The "9/11 everyday" is referring to the daily death toll (it's slightly lower now, but the point is well made).
  - analognoise 7y ago
    Yeah I definitely wasn't calling for war or anything of the sort.
- rjsw 7y ago
  Just copy 9/11, invade a country that borders China /s.
- moron4hire 7y ago
  If you apply the principle of "assuming good faith", then the GP is clearly taking about spending and mobilization of effort. And I agree. The US government has been negligent in their response to the pandemic.

unishark 7y ago

As a longtime germophobe, who is quite sure I have caught trip-ruining flu's and colds on multiple occasions from inconsiderate passengers on flights, hysteria could lead to some real improvements this time. Screening of sick passengers, extreme filtering of recirculated air, roomier airports rather than packing a dozen gates 12 feet apart at the end of the building (LAX), and while I'm dreaming, some social distancing between seats. They can make everyone wear full-on gas masks the entire trip. Still working on how to deal with bathrooms. At the very least, airlines can change those shitty change/refund policies that keep people from delaying their trip when they get sick.