This might sound like a dark humor but yesterday the issue of Oxygen shortage came up in Supreme Court of India. (For the uninitiated Indian Supreme Court acts a bit like village elder where they can give any random order to government for any reason even if there is no actual lawsuits under consideration.) Supreme court asked Government what their plan to increase Oxygen supply is and if they are planning to import…
In India Supreme Court can do the governing?!
Yes. Judicial overreach is as common as bribery in India.
Sorry you have so much negativity. I’ll be your friend.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Please stop creating accounts to do that with. It's vandalism if not arson, and will get your main account banned as well.
Me? What? What’s arson? Why am I flagged? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Why are you lumping me with this troll?
Lockdowns hurt poor people very badly; they need to earn to survive. All the more reason everyone should mask up. And yet, most people stopped masking months ago. Crowds are as bad as they were in 2019. On top of that, doctors here have created a craze for remdesivir, resulting in a blackmarket for it. The central and state governments have mismanaged plenty of things. While they deserve their share of blame, the ord…
What I don't get is why we call ourselves democracies and speak as "lockdowns hurt poor people very badly" In a representative democracy, you wouldn't lock down and force people to starve - you would lock down and provide income/food/capabilities for people to live regardless of their social/economic status. locking down isn't why poor people hurt, locking down and doing nothing to feed them does. It's like this pand…
Vastly depends on the country. In France, lots of efforts were made ( salary compensation so that people keep their jobs and get paid by the government, and companies aren't forced to fold; loans and loan guarantees for businesses; compensation for missed revenues for impacted companies; schools were kept open to give equal opportunities to children; moratorium on evictions; etc etc), with the president even saying multiple times "whatever it costs" ( the guy who was elected on a fiscal responsibility and reform platform ). And still people were left worse than before. It's really not easy, but governments really have to do their best.
We've banned this account for repeatedly breaking the site guidelines. Please stop creating accounts to do that with. It's vandalism if not arson, and will get your main account banned as well.
Me? What? What’s arson? Why am I flagged? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Why are you lumping me with this troll?
By "arson" I mean setting threads on fire, which is an apt metaphor - the same metaphor, of course, as in the word "flamewar". Comments like these are not acceptable here:
Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart? Please remember that the rules don't stop applying when someone else behaves badly. Although I haven't asked the other user about it, I'm certain they would see you as "this troll" and themselves as the one who ought not to be "lumped in". It always feels like the other person started it and did worse. That's obviously a recipe for a downward spiral. The only solution is to do better, even when provoked.
??? You do know that East Asia has been hit several times by local epidemics (for example SARS) and that people have gotten used - based on previous government recommendations/mandates - to wear masks? That same culture used to people wearing masks is obviously helping now. Governments can't completely control a virus, but they can definitely help curb its spread by taking effective measures. And one of that measures…
This is not just the people getting used to wearing mask. This is the government having an existing plan to actually combat a pandemic. The response of most Western governments have been shambolic: here in the UK the government didn't start doing widespread randomised COVID tests until August, and even when they did the results covered such a big area that were practically useless. For most of 2020 we simultaneously…
We had pandemic preparedness guidelines, and none of them involved lockdowns. They go thrown away in blind panic.
Governments can't control a virus. East Asia seems to have existing immunity or a genetic factor that means they aren't getting hit anywhere near as badly as other parts of the world.
??? You do know that East Asia has been hit several times by local epidemics (for example SARS) and that people have gotten used - based on previous government recommendations/mandates - to wear masks? That same culture used to people wearing masks is obviously helping now. Governments can't completely control a virus, but they can definitely help curb its spread by taking effective measures. And one of that measures…
There are only two Asian countries where mask wearing was common. South Korea and Japan. Hardly anywhere in Asia got hit hard. One theory is that there is a lot more contact with bats, trading them which act as a reservoir, and providing some level of immunity. Obesity rates will be another big factor. Masks show very little evidence of having any effect whatsoever.
Me? What? What’s arson? Why am I flagged? I have no idea what you’re talking about. Why are you lumping me with this troll?
By "arson" I mean setting threads on fire, which is an apt metaphor - the same metaphor, of course, as in the word "flamewar". Comments like these are not acceptable here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26892708 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26897350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26912876 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26924151 Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidel…
I appreciate the effort to point out how to do better. I will actually take the feedback positively due to you saying “do better, even when provoked.” For whatever reason, that hit close to home to a principle I’ve been striving for. The tone you gave me initially in the arson post definitely rubbed me the wrong way initially; it felt critical without a positive path and just made me want to rebel.
So, thank you, and maybe my feedback is worth a cent. If not no worries.