I'm thinking it's time to give up. Climate is accelerating at speeds that now match what I was predicting 10 to 15 years ago. Doubling and tripling are popping up everywhere. But nothing of significance changes. We are like the Maya, no idea we've created our own collapse and... no idea what to do about it. But let's not pick on the Maya; society after society has made the same error and collapsed. It's what we, homo sapiens stupidus, do with but extremely rare exceptions. Graeber and Wengrow (2021) posit the Mississippian culture 9f Cahokia fame are...

@DrEricLevi @chrischirp Let's be clear:
* False equivalence. Very few countries have ever "locked down." Those very, very few that did it mostly right were able to close to (relative) normalcy much more quickly.

* The "lockdowns" have been so difficult because they have dragged on and on, weakened... @DrEricLevi @chrischirp prematurely, and had to lock down again.

* Political ideologies, false beliefs about Economics, the worship of Econ/economy, i.e. the wealth of the very rich, have driven what should have been purely scientifically-based decisions about the pandemic and the lockdowns.

* Had...