"The only actions governments took was to collect data, watch and wait, encourage testing and vaccines, and so on. The medical community took the primary responsibility for disease mitigation, as one might expect. It was widely assumed that diseases require medical not political responses.
It’s not as if we had governments unwilling to intervene in other matters. We had the Vietnam War, social welfare, public housing, urban renewal, and the rise of Medicare and Medicaid. We had a president swearing to cure all poverty, illiteracy, and disease. Government was as intrusive as it had ever been in history. But for some reason, there was no thought given to shutdowns.
Which raises the question: why was this different? We will be trying to figure this one out for decades.
Was the difference that we have mass media invading our lives with endless notifications blowing up in our pockets? Was there some change in philosophy such that we now think politics is responsible for all existing aspects of life? Was there a political element here in that the media blew this wildly out of proportion as revenge against Trump and his deplorables? Or did our excessive adoration of predictive modelling get out of control to the point that we let a physicist with ridiculous models frighten the world’s governments into violating the human rights of billions of people?"
Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic
Woodstock Occurred in the Middle of a Pandemic
Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by KenH, May 4, 2020.
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I'd say it is different because the situation was handled differently.
Perhaps if with the Hong Kong pandemic the US took measures they took today the death rate would have been much lower with many lives saved. Perhaps if the U.S. did not take action the rate would be higher.
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church mouse guy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
A lot of them at Woodstock during that Hong Kong flu outbreak did not wear a face mask or anything else.
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Putting 30 Million people out of work and cratering the economy over a virus arguably no more virulent than those of the past was the result of nothing more than over-hyping by the media and playing politics by those who believe there is ...there has to be... a political solution to everything.
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I guess it doesn't really matter anyway,
I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
I guess it doesn't matter anyway,
Guess it doesn't matter anyway. :) -
I don't stay at home. Weekend before last I was in the mountains, last weekend I was at the beach. And a lot of the restaurants at the beach were open (but they had outdoor dining). -
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Maybe you shouldn't. But you can.
That is what happened when the government made people close their businesses. -
church mouse guy Well-Known MemberSite Supporter
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But everyone knew about Woodstock. Most of us figured spending a little time wallowing in the mud in Vietnam would have done them all some good. -
If everyone had a cell phone back then, they would not have had to get together in the middle of nowhere.
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