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no one cares anymore. it& #39;s astonishing. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266952781220413440">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
near-religious fervor about flattening the curve, test/trace/isolate, shaming of anyone that even remotely appeared to break the lockdown. gone.
but the virus itself isn& #39;t gone. not even remotely. it just blew past the 100K dead mark and its still going strong.
its astonishing. and of course when its "cool" to care about it again the lockdown skeptics will have a field day pointing out the hypocrisy
was it a very hard moral and practical issue about how to avoid criminalizing mass protest while also dealing with public health concerns? yes. but the Discourse simply didn& #39;t try at all.
at the end of the day, a massive shutdown that put people out of work (and in some ways may have helped cause the riots), its just gone from public consideration because its too inconvenient https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266952781220413440">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
in some ways there& #39;s a continuum between the handling of the virus and the handling of the civil unrest https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266962942425268231">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
which is why its helpful to not forget the virus https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266720401738158080">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
but there& #39;s something else, something deeper too https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266918617138057221">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
it& #39;s precisely the underlying belief among so many that they are going to somehow control the uncontrollable https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266919182362382337">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
and the underlying reality that the person nominally "in charge" cannot be trusted to perform basic duties and is best off just hiding from public view https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266959615960526848">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
even if local officials are scarcely any better https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266844616306970628">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
"not my problem" is the mantra and "you& #39;re on your own" is the prescription. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266486756570017792">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
it gives too much coherence to say "no one is thinking more than one step ahead" because there is no thinking https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1267075626424578049">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
the lockdown was supposed to buy time for the government to stabilize the virus and set the conditions for re-opening. in response the feds wasted months essentially dithering https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1267075856830205953">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
now it is summer. people are restless, one-third are unemployed, benefits and local government monies will at some point run out if they haven& #39;t already. the virus is still cutting a swathe through the public.
show public servants murdering a black man on video, utterly mishandle the response, what is exactly going to happen here?
public officials have little credibility so even if they are correct here they will not be listened to https://nypost.com/2020/05/31/protesters-have-increased-risk-of-getting-coronavirus-officials/">https://nypost.com/2020/05/3...
There is uncertainty about whether there will be political will to continue basic activities like testing in major cities https://ktla.com/news/local-news/all-covid-19-testing-centers-in-l-a-city-closed-saturday-due-to-safety-worries-amid-george-floyd-protests/">https://ktla.com/news/loca...
meanwhile basic terminology and authorities derived for COVID-19 are being repurposed for dealing with civil unrest, with little consideration about the associations it will create in the public mind https://twitter.com/EylerWerve/status/1266810110787162119">https://twitter.com/EylerWerv...
the two blend together, in any event, because any baseline for normality decays the longer crisis is left to fester without appropriate response https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266846574040289293">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
no one "owns" something triggered by a loss of ownership https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266761726151794694">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
welcome to the omni-crisis https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266597836566802440">https://twitter.com/Aelkus/st...
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