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Bureaucracy is how Coronavirus infected people were transferred to nursing homes as a service. There was a "Mandate" to protect contagious seniors from discrimination in admission. Kafka could have written the script.
People who survived WW2, who even the SS and Kamikaze corps failed to kill, finally succumbed to some obscure agency nobody knows exists.

"They got me."
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We are transitioning from the pandemic crisis to the post-pandemic turmoil. We dodged the first bullet. Here comes the next. We are led alas, by the worst political and cultural elite the West has seen in a hundred years.
Maybe the best way to defend Hong Kong and Taiwan is to rebuild America. That would present a tremendous, but nonkinetic competitive threat to Beijing. They could not afford to get bogged down in Hong Kong and Taiwan. If you want to lose HK, choose "managed decline".
This indirect strategy of reconstruction has a better chance of preserving the peace than one of appeasement which will only incentivize an eventual threat on Taiwan or Luzon, catastrophically pulling in Japan and possibly Australia.
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Covid dealt a huge psychological blow to global institutions. They proved, momentarily at least, helpless against disease. The experts marched and countermarched. They closed economies, perhaps excessively.

They proved humanly fallible. Worth something, but not trillions.
Now they have to make the case that while everyone else must downsize, if they have not gone out of business, that govt must actually expand. Not only are they essential but even more essential. Therefore we need consols, special bonds, tax increases as we never did before.
We need these bonds and taxes to save the EU, the Chinese Communist Party and Washington, else how would we survive? If the World Order agrees on one thing it's that we need more World Order.
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"In the scientific world, it’s expected that even the highest-ranking academics will evolve their thinking ...But some scientists fear that the public doesn’t understand this, and is losing faith in scientists who change their minds."

cnbc.com/2020/05/23/why…
Many people are bothered by uncertainty. The two options offered by human experience, faith in God or the incompleteness of reason, are less than satisfying to those who crave a guarantee. The inexhaustibility of "secret things" is both the fount of creation and anxiety.
The corruptibility of both science and religion stems from the fact that we lack a way to do either without human agency. Thus we are always vulnerable to false prophets or what Churchill called "the lights of a perverted science".
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