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Path stickyness? IE, they got it wrong initially, and now its about individuals not having their power undermined? Its pretty surprising.
by RosanaAnaDana 4y ago
Path stickyness? IE, they got it wrong initially, and now its about individuals not having their power undermined?
Its pretty surprising.
- rcarr 4y agoThey've got so many viable excuses to fall back on though. Economy, vaccines, weaker variants, other countries have opened up. They could even make up some completely new narrative if they really wanted to about how they're going to get overtaken by India if they don't open the economy up or how they were running some two year lab experiment to ascertain long term effects for the good of the people and just release some hastily made paper supporting their findings. I don't know, it just seems really weird that these individuals would feel so threatened to roll back on it when it seems to be causing them more problems than its worth.
- RosanaAnaDana 4y agoYeah, its very weird. In some ways, I'm surprised they ever went into lockdown at all instead of forcing the population to grind through the pandemic regardless. In some ways, I see this policy as having a direct impact on globalism. With China being demonstrated to be an unreliable supplier, the pendulum on the movement towards a globally dependent economy seems to be swinging back again.
- rcarr 4y agoIt definitely feels that way from a Western perspective but I imagine its a bit different in Asia. Boris Johnson did a speech at a business conference in Singapore recently and apparently they didn't take kindly to him criticising China. I don't think we're going to see much return of local manufacturing but I do think we're going to see a return to a world which reflects the original Nato meaning of 1st, 2nd and 3rd world as two separate trade blocs separated on ideological lines with a third group of non-aligned countries.