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Complex systems are, well..., complicated. Policy choices always have trade-offs, most side-effects are only obvious with hindsight. I think it will be years,
by elzbardico 5y ago
Complex systems are, well..., complicated. Policy choices always have trade-offs, most side-effects are only obvious with hindsight.
I think it will be years, and it will take hundreds of thousands of person/years of research to really assess what we did wrong and what we did right in the pandemic. And it is best to be this way, as any conclusions we come to now are going to be probably contaminated with politics.
- Loughla 5y agoI am completely pessimistic that any substantive learning will come from this entire mess. It's already political; any results will either be massively and inappropriately influenced by politics, and/or valid results will just be scoffed at by one side or the other, depending on the result. I have no faith in major world powers to not use this as a continued power grab and cynical boost to their voting base.
- lrem 5y agoSee, my country saw some 300 years of democracy. At that point the progressives used a trick to pass a new constitution proclaiming all people to be equal. Conservatives felt their rights were violated so hard, they passed a resolution inviting neighbouring countries to intervene and another one for the army to stand down. Mere 200 years later all political options agree that was not very bright of them. Just give it some time.