Yes, I had been intending to make the same point. Steve Kates, for example, does not believe that Y2K was a serious software issue on which lots of time, effort and money was necessarily expended to ensure a crisis didn't happen.
Oh, and now that I look, I see that CL is already claiming this, because a UK expert is saying that the deaths in total could be on the low side because of the tough lockdown the country has been prepared to enforce.
CL, who craps on routinely about how shameful it is that too many old people end up in nursing homes (instead of at home, presumably being cared for by all the women he resents for having a job instead of being a housewife) has come out all in favour of the the Trumpian/conservative line "you know, these old people were going to die anyway, let's not worry too much about it":
Then there are my fellow Catholics, a number of whom seem to believe the right to life – which is the right not to be killed – means no-one can be “allowed” to die at any cost. This is both childish and theological nonsense. Society and the economy cannot be “shut down.” This isn’t a Ferris wheel. If that’s the putative solution, then there is no current “solution” – except patience, charity, cleanliness and protection of the vulnerable. That is the best we can do.The Trump supporting conservative (especially a Catholic one) is the most ridiculous, inconsistent, morally offensive and intellectually vacuous thing I have ever seen in my lifetime.
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Yes, been seen at Catallaxy, too.
I trust Steve Kates is pleased that Trump gives out press credentials to such outlets. (He is Jewish, apparently. And living proof that you can't stereotype all Jews as intellectually sharp.)
Yes, I think this is likely, too.
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stupid is as stupid does
USA now has the most cases of any country. Onya Donald.
vote in an incompetent and this is what you get.
People will die for the lockdown too.
The job losses are huge and the government solution of bonuses, more welfare, etc is a crude, hastily-worked out solution that won’t help everyone.
If we’d had more foresight as a nation we would have been able to come up with containment and management strategies like Taiwan, South Korea, Japan. If the Fed/State governments don’t have these strategies in place soon for a month/two months from now I don’t like their chances of keeping government. Because we’ll only be able to tolerate a lockdown for so long.
You cannot so much pin it on Trump. Its biowarfare, so the Chinese may have retaliated by hitting New York which is now completely rampant with it. But Trump is too old to be President. Good in many ways though he is. Because he's been suckered into a economy-killing stimulus package. Its really just a plutocrats orgy of stealing.
I'm pretty ambivalent about this one. Do we treat it like foot and mouth disease? Or like measles? To have a lurgie come out of a biowarfare lab and have to treat it like Measles seems a bit odd. But if the young people always had it and were immune, the old guys wouldn't catch it as a pandemic.
We better get back to work soon.
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