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This is getting dumb and to mixed in with politics; it's a bad but not catastrophic illness and we have to have a bit of adjustment to further mitigate but the
by iphone_elegance 6y ago
This is getting dumb and to mixed in with politics; it's
a bad but not catastrophic illness and we have to have a bit of adjustment to further mitigate but these generic-stay-at-home orders are just dumb
- ianleeclark 6y ago> This is getting dumb and to mixed in with politics In what world could a government shelter orders ever not be involved with politics? I see this comment day-in and day-out on HN and I just can't even begin to conceptualize a world wherein there's some sterile, politics-free zone.
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoThere are plenty of places in the world where it isn't so politicised. America does tend to get its knickers in a twist over things the rest of the world barely takes any notice of.
- ianleeclark 6y ago> There are plenty of places in the world where it isn't so politicised Is "politically polarized" what "politics" means to you?
- iphone_elegance 6y agoNot necessary, but it is what I was thinking about when I wrote my original comment my mistake
- tonyedgecombe 6y agoNo, well not in the sense that things have become so tribal.
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- haggy 6y agoYou're witnessing a real-time process of adaptation. What you need to understand is even if officials and leaders agree that generic lockdowns are "dumb", it takes days or weeks to enact those changes at the macro level. You also need to add on the 14 day incubation period of the virus. If you make sweeping adjustments to lockdown or distancing rules, you will not know the true effects for 10-14 days. This makes progress seem very slow whereas the reality of it is that progress is actually moving quite fast in the macro (global) sense.