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> Your post now reads, «Its a start at least, but that's still very vague»: you must have edited while I was writing: you know this is not the original poster w

• mdp2021 5y ago
  No harshness was perceived on the first formulation; the second one with «Its a start at least», creates doubts about "what exactly missed a start, what remained unexplained before that partial disclosure". Among the tentative interpretations of those doubts was that you may have understood that the original poster was replying clarifying his own position, as you elicited. There is little hidden about what is unconvincing in the situation. I just submitted an article from The Atlantic, "The Myth That Democracies Bungled the Pandemic" (they do not, to the reading of some data by that author), https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748382 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28748382 , and in providing a few quotations in the opening post I noted a there reported statement from Francis Fukuyama: > it is not necessarily democracy but “whether citizens trust their leaders, and whether those leaders preside over a competent and effective state” that is crucial to defeating a pandemic This is another way to express the issue, and another formulation of The Reply to a reading of your post as "what does one demand to trust": trustworthiness.