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> even though COVID just keeps on truckin' through Cali California’s death rate is far lower than Florida. This isn’t something you should be both-sidesing. Te
by jquery 5y ago
> even though COVID just keeps on truckin' through Cali
California’s death rate is far lower than Florida. This isn’t something you should be both-sidesing. Tens of thousands of Californians are still alive because of the measures we’ve taken.
And it’s not so much horror as disgust and confusion, like seeing someone smearing feces on themselves and saying “I trolled u!!”
- khazhoux 5y agoMaybe I expressed myself incorrectly, because my goal wasn't to "both-sides" this. My point was that there is a complete refusal (as far as I see) to do a critical evaluation of the steps California took, to see whether they were excessive/broad (or, I suppose, too relaxed) in some circumstances. To even ask the question, as I'm doing, puts you in the false-equivalence crosshairs.
- jquery 5y agoHmm, I disagree it’s not being debated here. There’s certainly a lot of healthy debate. It just happens to be centered far more towards the “principle of boosting the disadvantaged” (so our concern over the immuno-compromised, the infirm and weak, the underprivileged, etc), whereas the debate elsewhere kind of sidelines them, or at least puts the concerns of healthy privileged people at the same level. Not sure my point is getting across. I’m not quite sure what my point is. Still trying to figure out what makes California (and especially San Francisco) different without resorting to simple left vs right language.