This suggests that in fact the election officials were quite accommodating of an ENORMOUS surge in desire to vote early. Pretty strongly militates against "lines prove voter suppression" theory, since empirically voter participation ROSE.
It's just amazing to me people are like "THE GOVERNMENT HAS A RESPONSIBILITY TO MAKE IT CONVENIENT!"
1) no, it literally doesn't 2) y'all we're debating how long of a line you should have to wait to vote.... ***20 days before the election***
That's convenient!
You've got a whole lot of days to choose from on when to vote!
And you can also mail in your ballot!
And as we get closer to voting day, more polling places will open!
That's very convenient!
Yes, the first day or two of early voting is crowded. There's been a MASSIVE surge in demand for early voting, DESPITE a big shift towards mail-in voting. "Election officials wrongly expected people would vote by mail rather than early voting" is... not unethical or racist.
And even then, they successfully accommodated a ***41%*** increase in vote-casting! That's a very large increase! It's not super common for local areas to see an increase in votes cast on that scale!
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At the release for UNFPA's big global annual report in the Philippines, the media highlight was about how COVID-19 will cause a huge rise (25%!) in unintended pregnancies in the Philippines.
I haven't been able to figure out what that is based on in terms of data.
At about 26 minutes here the explanation starts. It's based papers published by Guttmacher and JHU, and back-of-the-envelope estimates of changes in contraception.
I keep Lutheran in my bio mostly because it’s true but also a little bit because it helps ID people who are paid trolls who just grab random words out of your bio to use as pejoratives.
Lutherans do not have any meaningful political or ideological brand, globally or domestically. Indeed being milquetoast is practically the Lutheran political creed. And yet these trolls come out of the woodwork being like “WELL OF COURSE HE’S LUTHERAN”
If in your first interaction with a person on this hellsite you reference any part of their listed bio 99% of the time it means you’re the bad guy.
No— having every individual work in the marketplace is neither necessary nor desirable. We should not treat isolated individual career achievement as the end-all of mobility.
Also, for a lot of people, “I make more income but whereas my parents basically achieved their family goals, but I didn’t” doesn’t feel like upward mobility. Key to recognize marriage isn’t just a PATH TO upward mobility, marriage IS upward mobility for many people!
Pretty much any welfare function will treat total welfare as some function of leisure time and other variables so we should not prima facie assume differences in labor force participation we know are culturally related are necessarily “lack of mobility.”
I think it's possible to say both "the US response has been very bad" and also "Progressives have been leaping at any comparison to make the US look bad because they basically feel embarrassed about America anyways and confirmation bias is strong."
It is in fact possible that the US response has been worse than it should have been and also that the European response has been worse than it should have been, and that pretty much "the response" was determined by..... let's say March 1.
Once the disease was widespread in many countries, as it clearly was by early March, it's not clear how much influence governments could really wield in terms of preventing a major death spike.