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> In fairness, the right has been pretty consistent about tailoring the response according to risk—i.e., those who are at risk should isolate and everyone else
by ardy42 6y ago
> In fairness, the right has been pretty consistent about tailoring the response according to risk—i.e., those who are at risk should isolate and everyone else should resume work.
I don't think that was being consistent about "tailoring the response according to risk [from the virus]," but rather being consistent about tailoring the response to pre-existing policy preferences. An ideal lock-down requires significant temporary bottom-up government economic intervention, which the right opposes on principle. The policy of "those...at risk should isolate and everyone else should resume work" fits nicely with existing right wing ideas: keep government intervention to a minimum by maximally individualizing health burdens. The difficulty is that might not actually attack the problem very well.
- ColanR 6y ago> tailoring the response to pre-existing policy preferences Well, that's true of the left as well. A "bottom-up government economic intervention" fits nicely with existing left wing ideas.
- ardy42 6y ago> Well, that's true of the left as well. A "bottom-up government economic intervention" fits nicely with existing left wing ideas. That's true, but the different political ideologies are better at handling different kinds of problems. Public health emergencies like this one are the kind of thing that benefits from a properly-resourced, centrally coordinated response; a solution that happens to lean left.
- ColanR 6y agoEach side would of course argue that its own methods for handling each kind of problem is superior.