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It's not top-down. I think this is a trap that people fall into. We are operating a massive distributed message passing system (the financial-political system) with no top-down authority any more. No one is in charge. We are _all_ King Louis XIV, sitting around waiting for the minions to deliver trinkets. Meanwhile the guillotine is on its way.
What does this story tell us? Nothing. No matter how good the government is, there would be definitely be one preventable death. Also looking at her previous posts, this is like she found the perfect story, or it isn't unlikely she is making up the details. This story wasn't related to Trump at all and yet reporter mentions trump 16 times by name and many more by pronoun. I hope HN stops upvoting clickbait stories li…
“no matter how good the government is..” classic strawman. it’s like saying no matter how good the vaccine is, there would be one preventable death, so why blame anti-vaxxers.
Some of the sociopaths in the comment section (on the article, not here) are truly mind-blowing. It is scary to be confronted with the fact that not only are those people out there, but they are likely more numerous than you think.
We're definitely in the era of the internet sociopath, people who engage in whatever the opposite of virtue signalling is (viciousness signalling?). They're quite happy to post how all sorts of people deserve to die.
But you're absolutely right. I'm baffled by how many people are eager to announce how much they hate people who never did them any harm, how people deserve misery and suffering, why it's fine to let thousands die.
In the past at least there was the pretense of morality, even if it was frequently hypocritical. Now it looks like all the hypocrisy is gone and all that's left is open hatred. I really hope this shocks enough people to turn it around.
What does this story tell us? Nothing. No matter how good the government is, there would be definitely be one preventable death. Also looking at her previous posts, this is like she found the perfect story, or it isn't unlikely she is making up the details. This story wasn't related to Trump at all and yet reporter mentions trump 16 times by name and many more by pronoun. I hope HN stops upvoting clickbait stories li…
Maybe if our COVID response was like Germany, a lot of lives would have been saved, like her grandfather. Why isn’t it the fault of Trump who was focused on his re-election and did the bare minimum? “no matter how good the government is..” classic strawman. it’s like saying no matter how good the vaccine is, there would be one preventable death, so why blame anti-vaxxers.
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> Literally nothing suggests that, no other country in the world has any statistics to back this up New Zealand. Taiwan. Vietnam. South Korea.
Mongolia, Thailand
2 or 3 days ago I had an argument in an online game. MMO people are usually on the short end when IQ and social IQ were distributed. I was complaining in guild chat about I'm sick of people who don't wear masks on public transport. And the silly person claims that you have the right to not wear a mask. I'm thinking, "you dumb b.... you have the right to infect other people potentially killing them?" Then 3 people "st…
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Mongolia, Thailand
To put some numbers to it - Thailand: population 70 million, number of confirmed cases < 4,000, number of deaths 60, not an island - borders Myanmar on the west, Laos north and northeast, Cambodia east, Malaysia south.
> a top-down emphasis on productivity over humanity. It's not top-down. I think this is a trap that people fall into. We are operating a massive distributed message passing system (the financial-political system) with no top-down authority any more. No one is in charge. We are _all_ King Louis XIV, sitting around waiting for the minions to deliver trinkets. Meanwhile the guillotine is on its way.
You might have forgotten in the last four years of "I don't take responsibility for anything" but the President is supposed to be that authority. Armed with the bully pulpit of being on every TV channel if he needs to be, armed with millions of people at his direct beck and call, with the tools of executive orders and being able to declare national emergencies.
Every other head of goverment has used some of these tools, even failures like Boris Johnson. That the US didn't is an indictment of the president and indirectly the US voter base.