Variation in government response to similar COVID epidemics -- "What does this tell us about democracy?"
"People are more conformist than I would have thought, being willing to put up with a lot more than I expected, at least in Europe and the blue parts of the US"
1/n
"People are more conformist than I would have thought, being willing to put up with a lot more than I expected, at least in Europe and the blue parts of the US"
1/n
"Partisanship is much stronger than I thought."
"Government measures that once seemed extreme can become normalized very quickly."
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"Government measures that once seemed extreme can become normalized very quickly."
2/n
"Democratically elected governments have a lot more freedom than I thought before, especially if elites claim that they are outsourcing decisions to “the science.”
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"The science” doesn’t even have to be that convincing, and nobody will ask obvious questions like how “the science” can allow for radically different policy responses in neighboring jurisdictions without much of a difference in results."
Right!
richardhanania.substack.com/p/the-weirdnes…
Right!
richardhanania.substack.com/p/the-weirdnes…
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