Re:London may have gone into a Covid-accelerated decline
by tinus_hn on Sunday May 24, 2020 @03:42PM
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> There is still a lot of uncertainty. We don't really know what works and what doesn't work.
Yet there are the unnamed but great
> people advocating for serious and sensible public policy re: COVID-19.
According to you these people have no idea what they are doing. Indeed if you believe that, the only way to go is to keep doing nothing out of caution.
Handwaving nonsense. You said that, not people advocating for serious and sensible public policy re: COVID-19.
> "Sounds so scary ..."
Have you actually listened to the people who had COVID-19 and recovered from more than mild symptoms? If there was an army or a terrorist group about to invade the US and kill 100k people, mostly at random, I suspect you'd consider that fairly "scary", as would most other people.
> "Is the same thing..."
As noted by another sibling comment, no it's not the same thing at all.
> "... there was a lot of uncertainty ..."
There is still a lot of uncertainty. We don't really know what works and what doesn't work. What you characterize as "clinging to ineffective rules" I would characterize as "trying to be cautious in the face of massive uncertainty".
I would never defend all of Cuomo's actions as NY Governor. He made a number of extremely serious errors, even though his demeanour in his later press briefings was exemplary.