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re: Is Georgia still around? I heard that they'd be a wasteland by now for opening up.
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:04 am to Centinel
Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:04 am to Centinel
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Because it's 0.02% of the US population, and heavily concentrated in a few hotspots.
For the overwhelming majority of this country the virus was never the problem. The response was.
Maybe so, but with so little known about the virus, it was a difficult decision. Could we have predicted a month ago that rural meat packing plants would become a hot spot? At the time, most laypeople thought it was primarily something that impacted high density urban areas. Would shutting them down, or at the very least implementing more safeguards within them, prevented them from becoming a hot spot? Possibly. NYC was somewhat predictable given what had happened in Italy.
The response has been far from perfect, and I'm in agreement the one-size-fits-all response was probably not that best approach. But I say that with the benefit of hindsight. When a lot of those decisions were made, there was still a LOT we didn't know about it. And we still don't know enough about it to make well informed decisions.
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Posted on 5/12/20 at 10:12 am to The Spleen
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I'm in agreement the one-size-fits-all response was probably not that best approach. But I say that with the benefit of hindsight.
You shouldn't have needed hindsight to see how this was going to go. Politicians and the media focused on the worst possible outcomes, in the worst possible places, and beat the drum that this was how it was going to be in all corners of the US. This caused a panic. The panic caused the public to demand their politicians "do something". The politicians "did something", even when that something had absolutely no local reason for doing so because that justification was based on a city on the other side of the country with completely different demographics.
But hey, people felt safe.
This is no different than the emotional, panic based response by people during 9/11 that resulted in the wonderful bill that is the Patriot Act.
People get scared and demand the government "do something". And it does. And it's never worth the cost. Ever. This is no different.
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