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> I’m not an expert of any kind here You don't have to be an expert to have seen that it wasn't remotely sensible to react the way that people did - and that a
by lurking15 2y ago
> I’m not an expert of any kind here
You don't have to be an expert to have seen that it wasn't remotely sensible to react the way that people did - and that authoritarians, the whole world over, reacted stupendously irrationally and censored their opponents who said that perhaps we should keep things running as normally as possible and shelter the vulnerable. That was the consensus disaster response plan until George Bush took guidance from some girl's school science fair project.
- ben_w 2y agoDespite those precautions lasting until we got vaccines, the world life expectancy dropped noticeably: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_some_big_countries.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Life_expectancy_in_s... https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy > That was the consensus disaster response plan until George Bush took guidance from some girl's school science fair project. I have no idea what you're referencing, but you do realise Bush wasn't in charge of the world even before he stopped being president, right?