Re:Army Corps of Engineers to Build Temporary Hospitals in NY
by mindslight on Sunday March 22, 2020 @04:48PM
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There will be no revisionism, because that would require respect for the value of speaking truthfully and standing behind your words. Rather, bringing this up will just be met with shallow denials that it wasn't important at the time, that nobody could have known, that the questioner is part of the problem, etc.
You can already see the narrative of the ignorance club is shifting to "we're doing a good job" - focusing on current nascent actions and completely ignoring the month long head start given to the pandemic in the US by inaction, incompetence, and outright lies (eg masks).
Not that it makes sense to waste energy bickering about these things when there is still a major problem to be addressed, but the point is that the month or two long societal shutdown we're experiencing is best attributed to a failure of our institutions rather than the force of nature.
You can already see the narrative of the ignorance club is shifting to "we're doing a good job" - focusing on current nascent actions and completely ignoring the month long head start given to the pandemic in the US by inaction, incompetence, and outright lies (eg masks).
Not that it makes sense to waste energy bickering about these things when there is still a major problem to be addressed, but the point is that the month or two long societal shutdown we're experiencing is best attributed to a failure of our institutions rather than the force of nature.