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Governments are adapting to new information. If you expect government policy to be based on an all-knowing oracle, of course you are going to be disappointed.
by mypalmike 5y ago
Governments are adapting to new information. If you expect government policy to be based on an all-knowing oracle, of course you are going to be disappointed.
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- chiefalchemist 5y agoIf I said that. If I implied that. Please point it out to me.
- mypalmike 5y agoIt's implied by "government promises". What has your government promised wrt covid? Were such failed promises made in bad faith, or due to the fact that covid is a complex and changing global pandemic without clear answers to anyone?
- chiefalchemist 5y agoIt's not what's said, but what's also said. https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-health-pandemics-united-nations-fcf28a83c9352a67e50aa2172eb01a2f https://apnews.com/article/coronavirus-pandemic-science-heal... The current cycle smells like insanity among other things. There are plenty of questions. "What questions?" is not one of them.
- twox2 5y agoGovernments are not known to relinquish control once a new baseline of normal is established... so it does seem that they are adapting to new information only when it serves a certain agenda.
- mypalmike 5y agoMask and other mandates from the Spanish flu era were relinquished once they were no longer needed. Interestingly, paranoia about such things was as common (and wrong) back then at it is now.
- freemint 5y agoI can only talk for my own country but politicians seem to have been really careful to either couple the laws to an state of emergency which is justified by the pandemic situation or do laws which have a certain due date and need to be renewed by Parlament every 6 monthish. Unlike national security against an invisible threat the absence of CoViD can be shown in which case government even if showing the behaviour you suggest can be more easily pressured into doing the right thing.