Re:September 11, 2001 media synced in real-time
by rkk3 on Sunday September 12, 2021 @07:09PM
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> Funny how the "safety-ism" after 9/11 was pushed by the Republicans and now the Republicans are complaining about Democrats pushing safety measures against Covid.
So your answer is to go sophist ad-hominem, by putting me in a group you find unfavorable rather than addressing the content of what I said. Am I letting the terrorist win or am I killing grandmas ? therefore you can justify x.
> Except y'know most of these measures actually drastically reduce transmission
This is very un-specific, but aside from vaccinations & living in a country with island like borders, very little has been definitely shown to reduce spread.
> maybe this should be considered a national defense emergency and the US should invest a few more billions
I'm not especially against that, even though I do think that unfortunately in practice these things risk end up just being vehicles for cronyism rather than tackling the core issue.
So your answer is to go sophist ad-hominem, by putting me in a group you find unfavorable rather than addressing the content of what I said. Am I letting the terrorist win or am I killing grandmas ? therefore you can justify x.
> Except y'know most of these measures actually drastically reduce transmission
This is very un-specific, but aside from vaccinations & living in a country with island like borders, very little has been definitely shown to reduce spread.
> maybe this should be considered a national defense emergency and the US should invest a few more billions
I'm not especially against that, even though I do think that unfortunately in practice these things risk end up just being vehicles for cronyism rather than tackling the core issue.