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no one cares anymore. it's astonishing. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266952781220413440
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'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'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
in some ways there's a continuum between the handling of the virus and the handling of the civil unrest https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266962942425268231
which is why its helpful to not forget the virus https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266720401738158080
but there's something else, something deeper too https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266918617138057221
it's precisely the underlying belief among so many that they are going to somehow control the uncontrollable https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266919182362382337
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
even if local officials are scarcely any better https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266844616306970628
"not my problem" is the mantra and "you're on your own" is the prescription. https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266486756570017792
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
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
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'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/
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/
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
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
no one "owns" something triggered by a loss of ownership https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266761726151794694
welcome to the omni-crisis https://twitter.com/Aelkus/status/1266597836566802440
