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Wow, the comments on that blog are a dumpster fire.
I know it's probably not "Russian bots", but... Two of the comments post the same CDC 2017 list, and both come from twitter accounts with 0 posts (one is 100% retweets of anti-"liberal" content). I'm never sure how plausible it is for someone to have the time to sit on twitter all day just to RT these things and then jump onto rando blogs to leave long comments like these.
> And bigger picture, I wanted to know if these are places that I would feel safe taking my family to. I think this is the most important metric as far as “re-opening the economy” goes but it seems to be largely ignored by politicians.
Given that your children are unlikely to be at serious risk from COVID-19, I'm not sure why. Your child is much more likely to be adversely affected (in the long term) by sustained economic stagnation than by this virus.
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> I don't understand how people can think complete eradication is even possible. Eradication, to the point that contract tracing is a viable containment method, has been achieved by other countries. It is completely possible.
We're a long way from that being proven.
But we aren't doing this, we're instead bickering incessantly and fatalistically rationalizing a much worse outcome than necessary. It is a deep deep historical failure of leadership.
What the fuck is up with those comments? I mean the answer is obvious, but still. At that point, just shut them off. As for the actual topic, it's almost as if "closed" or "open" isn't the entirety of the subject? It seems like we could be dealing with some kind of underlying meatspace problem that needs to be addressed before things can go back to "normal". Who knew?! (/s) Months ago it was apparent that this virus…
There is value in exposing and making it very, very hard to miss the level of brainworms with which we are dealing.
The stock market is soaring, People are dying at an ever increasing rate, and It’s becoming painfully obvious to most people what a total failure our federal govt’s as been. Things are about to move into dust bowl depression with the extremely rich at the top and 90% wallowing in desperate poverty. I’m afraid the American experiment is over and it’s a sad outcome.
What data are you referencing?
I'm a little blown away by statements like this. The United States is not New York City. New York City is a single location in a massive country.
Other than New York City there really has not been a problem with coronavirus in the United States compared to other nations in the world.
It is imperative that we all act responsibly to prevent other parts of the United States from getting to a bad place but we should maintain perspective that this is not the end of the world.
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1259629409016954883...
https://twitter.com/NateSilver538/status/1259601646591582212...
Wow, the comments on that blog are a dumpster fire.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Given that your children are unlikely to be at serious risk from COVID-19, I'm not sure why. Your child is much more likely to be adversely affected (in the long term) by sustained economic stagnation than by this virus.
Considering most countries try to avoid overwhelming the healthcare system, your child is affected by it though not directly. It should just not get sick, or have any form of preexisting condition about to pop up, or infect it's parents to name some possibilities.
This is a nice example of private business picking up the mantle of what is ordinarily thought of as a government function. All the hostile comments (on the blog) are probably being made by people that favor small government and therefore theoretically in favor of a private company doing the survey. But apparently they don't want anyone telling them what to do.
Restaurants NOT opening when the restrictions were lifted is actually a good sign if you are interested in small government: it tells that the restrictions were most probably non-binding as a constraint.
Ie they were telling people to do stuff that they would have done anyway.
(Compare to eg a 0.1 dollar/h minimum wage: almost no-one would actually be at that minimum wage, so it's 'non-binding' in the same sense.)
Government constraints that are non-binding or almost non-binding aren't too bad. Since they don't change market outcomes (too much).
> And bigger picture, I wanted to know if these are places that I would feel safe taking my family to. I think this is the most important metric as far as “re-opening the economy” goes but it seems to be largely ignored by politicians.
>I think this is the most important metric as far as “re-opening the economy” goes but it seems to be largely ignored by politicians. Basically all metrics have been ignored. Two weeks ago it was all "We're going to do a phased reopening with checkpoints based on the data.". A few armed protests later and my state (NC) at least is going full YOLO reopening everything but bars, based on absolutely nothing but hopes an…
My country (India) had one of the strictest lockdowns, but the economic fallout from it is too severe. The message now is that we will have to learn to live with the virus.
The stock market is soaring, People are dying at an ever increasing rate, and It’s becoming painfully obvious to most people what a total failure our federal govt’s as been. Things are about to move into dust bowl depression with the extremely rich at the top and 90% wallowing in desperate poverty. I’m afraid the American experiment is over and it’s a sad outcome.
The stock market doing well would be a rare glimmer of hope in a sea of trouble, wouldn't it be?