Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by h2odragon on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:21PM
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Lots of people are looking for any story they can find to make all this make sense. The stories they're hearing don't make sense and keep changing, too. I don't think doubling down on the parochial "we'll tell you what to think, you can trust us" is going to win back their trust or make them any more willing to embrace the complexities and uncertainties they face. It'll definitely confirm that there's "seekrits they're not being told", however.
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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by akozak on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:25PM
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What stories don't make sense? A novel coronavirus caught fire in China, spread internationally, killed a lot of people, and some gov'ts fumbled the response and some didn't.
Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns
by perl4ever on Friday June 05, 2020 @09:42PM
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"some gov'ts fumbled the response and some didn't"
Who decided this is over and in the past tense? That's what troubling me, personally. I feel there's a point at which people are going to look down and realize we've run off a cliff into midair. We may not be in danger of having the hospitals overrun, so it could be ok, but it makes me nervous. If reopening goes well in the US and western Europe, what about the countries where the epidemic is spreading now at an ever increasing rate?
Daily new cases have been trending up for roughly a month, and daily new deaths have been declining, but may be turning a corner right now.