This raises something pro-lockdown types have (if only implicitly) accused me of since this all started: my lack of sunny optimism, essentially a failure of sufficient self-sacrificial ‘heroism’, in my (correct) belief that staying on the ‘golden path’ was a non-starter.
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https://twitter.com/soncharm/status/1419650304191209475
I’ll just say that hey, if you’d asked me to envision pre-2019 what our Pandemic Response Plan would’ve looked like, I too might’ve imagined sealed 3-ring binders being unsealed, and helicopters swooping down to unload a rappelling Dustin Hoffman in a hazmat suit, saving the day.
But instead what we got was, like, some lady in a giant scarf standing at a podium on TV telling us all to ‘wash our hands’.
I dunno, stuff like that just kinda seemed like a clue to me that no Super Awesome Pandemic Plan was in the offing. Maybe I’m just super-perceptive.
I dunno, stuff like that just kinda seemed like a clue to me that no Super Awesome Pandemic Plan was in the offing. Maybe I’m just super-perceptive.
In fairness I can totally understand why
‘Guys, this is all just To Buy Time for policymakers to [setup a bunch of awesome pandemic-fighting stuff]’ was persuasive to so many
But instead what we have Bought Time For policymakers to do is, to tell us all to wear masks. Forever.
‘Guys, this is all just To Buy Time for policymakers to [setup a bunch of awesome pandemic-fighting stuff]’ was persuasive to so many
But instead what we have Bought Time For policymakers to do is, to tell us all to wear masks. Forever.
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