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You're making a lot of assumptions, some of them almost slight-of-handish and it makes this whole thing read as not particularly trustworthy to me. For example
by giraffe_lady 4y ago
You're making a lot of assumptions, some of them almost slight-of-handish and it makes this whole thing read as not particularly trustworthy to me.
For example what is "the cause of liberty?" As phrased nearly anyone would support that abstract concept, but when they find out what concrete policies other people mean by that it's a source of vicious conflict. So what do you mean by it?
Another is the repeated assumption that covid mitigation steps like isolation and vaccination have no impact beyond the individual. This is a normative american mindset, maybe, but completely insufficient for addressing a public health issue like a pandemic. As witnessed by the US having something like 1/5 of the global covid deaths. Rhetorically irresponsible not to address this point, given the subject and context.
And then finally you're assuming a lot of things happened because of covid, when it's possible-to-likely covid provided only the proximate trigger or justification. To address your examples: russia and ukraine were already at war & this escalation had been predicted for years; famine is well understood to be a political phenomenon and covid provided a justification to accelerate policies of austerity and inequality, but none of them were invented recently.