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Of course, next time there's a disease that turns out to be a nothing-burger, the early incentive for politicians is going to be to overreact rather than underr
by mbg721 6y ago
Of course, next time there's a disease that turns out to be a nothing-burger, the early incentive for politicians is going to be to overreact rather than underreact. If emergency-fatigue seems bad now, I don't think we've seen anything yet.
- robomartin 6y agoI think, I hope, what we'll do is pay attention to people like Dr. Fauci and ignore politicians insisting that "it's just like the flu, we are ready for this, go about your lives as normal". That is, quite literally, the level of dysfunction we experienced; the federal government yelling "Danger Will Robinson" and the entirety of the media and one political party saying "Ignore them, they are just being racist". And here we are.