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I wouldn't say that categorically: In california based on china's experience we set up huge triage centers in school gymnasia that never got used.

mewpmewp2 6y ago
Imagine a coin flip for a disaster to happen. You could spend large amount of resources to prevent 10x the damage if it occurs. Would you not? Now imagine the disaster didn't happen, would you consider these to be a waste of resources? Now I am not saying that it wasn't waste of resources. All I am saying is that the argument is flawed that resources are wasted because some disaster did not occur. You could criticise the process that determined the chances of those gyms being needed faulty. But then bring arguments on how the process to determine the risk was flawed. Was the process of trying to determine risk from.another country's experience (china) flawed? If so, how should they have determined the risk?
- dnautics 6y ago
  I didn't mean to judge I'm just saying that it's not categorically the case that the US was underprepared, which is what parent poster claimed. If you want an interpretation, it's that politicians like to prematurely take grandiose measures when smaller measures are more important, and for smaller measures like to make edicts when getting buy-in might be a better strategy for obtaining social compliance.
mrtksn 6y ago
My car has a seatbelt and an Airbag, It never saved my life. That said, of course it is possible to misuse the resources but I would't know about the specifics of California.
- read_if_gay_ 6y ago
  Seatbelts and airbags are low cost items, many COVID measures aren’t. I think something like only going 30 on a highway would be a more fitting comparison to our empty hospitals.
  - mrtksn 6y ago
    Airbags are not very low-cost in the context of cars but sure why not? Another low cost item is a mask and social distancing and there is a serious backslash to those too because "It's just a flu, [theGroupYouHate] is fear-mongering". I don't think that the issue is about balancing the costs and benefits here but as I said, it is possible to misuse the resources and have expensive solutions that don't solve anything. Therefore, worrying is the force making you look for the solution but it's not a solution by itself.
dr_dshiv 6y ago
Why was that? It all still baffles

mewpmewp2 6y ago

Imagine a coin flip for a disaster to happen. You could spend large amount of resources to prevent 10x the damage if it occurs. Would you not? Now imagine the disaster didn't happen, would you consider these to be a waste of resources? Now I am not saying that it wasn't waste of resources. All I am saying is that the argument is flawed that resources are wasted because some disaster did not occur. You could criticise the process that determined the chances of those gyms being needed faulty. But then bring arguments on how the process to determine the risk was flawed. Was the process of trying to determine risk from.another country's experience (china) flawed? If so, how should they have determined the risk?

dnautics 6y ago
I didn't mean to judge I'm just saying that it's not categorically the case that the US was underprepared, which is what parent poster claimed. If you want an interpretation, it's that politicians like to prematurely take grandiose measures when smaller measures are more important, and for smaller measures like to make edicts when getting buy-in might be a better strategy for obtaining social compliance.

mrtksn 6y ago

My car has a seatbelt and an Airbag, It never saved my life. That said, of course it is possible to misuse the resources but I would't know about the specifics of California.

read_if_gay_ 6y ago
Seatbelts and airbags are low cost items, many COVID measures aren’t. I think something like only going 30 on a highway would be a more fitting comparison to our empty hospitals.
- mrtksn 6y ago
  Airbags are not very low-cost in the context of cars but sure why not? Another low cost item is a mask and social distancing and there is a serious backslash to those too because "It's just a flu, [theGroupYouHate] is fear-mongering". I don't think that the issue is about balancing the costs and benefits here but as I said, it is possible to misuse the resources and have expensive solutions that don't solve anything. Therefore, worrying is the force making you look for the solution but it's not a solution by itself.

dr_dshiv 6y ago

Why was that? It all still baffles