One thing Yarvin got right in his contested recent piece is that these policies are dumb even if you think the virus is serious. China didn't make people wear a cloth mask while leaving borders and highways open, they welded people shut in their houses.
What the west is doing is actually monumentally dumber: it's laughable compared to what you need for a *real* quarantine and overkill for anything that doesn't warrant one. There is no hypothetical disease where our current policy would make sense.
Imagine being a lib, thinking this is Ebola 2.0, and deciding that you only need to stand 6 feet apart and not impose martial law to ban interstate migration. The mind boggles.
I try to force myself to understand why other people think the way they do (I was wrong once about being an anarcho-feminist; I may be wrong again) but the only thing I can imagine going through the lib mind on this issue is unthinking trust in the biomedical industry.
"This virus is serious enough you'll be banned for not taxing a botched vaccine but not bad enough for mandatory contact tracing apps like what the Asians are doing." Yeah, ok.
Like Yarvin said, an actual quarantine would not relax when the curve goes down, but continue until the curve is FLAT. That's the POINT of it!
The only westerners who understood this were the racist anon shitposters in the early months. Libs... I have no idea how they process this.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TAJackson20/status/1469093193752866822
So what Yarvin is advocating is basically the only sensible thing to do if you think this virus is actually serious. Unfortunately for him, it isn't lol.
And this is why I'm not mad at him like some people are. I'm much more forgiving of people who are _wrong_ than people who are _incoherent_.
https://mobile.twitter.com/TAJackson20/status/1469094333995360260
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