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America Will Need More Lockdowns, but Americans Don't Want Them
- beamatronic 6y agoThe pattern I see over and over again: Diligent, rational, thoughtful, rule-following people.... as soon as they see others disregard the rules, they do also. They just threw all the precautions out the window.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoMaybe we could think of this like dieting. To not go off a diet, you need to keep some amount (10-20%?) of the stuff you like to eat. It's too hard otherwise. In the same way, "Stop doing everything you find fun and fulfilling, and just stay home" is a tough sell. But if everyone cracked down 80%, we likely wouldn't need to crack down 100%. The problem is with those who refuse to crack down at all. I'm not sure how to persuade them, short of arresting them. And even that would lead to something like bootlegging during prohibition.