I’m of the opposite opinion. Because of the federalist system, any blaming of the federal response is misguided at best, political at worst. Since eac...
The unpreparedness is a world-wide phenomenon. According to the Global Health Security index, "no country is fully prepared for epidemics or pandemics...
The response to disasters in the US is premised on the federalist system. The State and local governments own the assets to deal with disasters, each ...
Traditionally viruses have been named after where they come from—west Nile virus, MERS, Zika virus, Spanish flu, Hong Kong flu, Asian flu, Russian flu...
No, using the adjective “Chinese” is not racist by any stretch of the imagination, save for perhaps in the pliable brains of the politically correct. ...
I said the charge of racism for criticizing the Chinese response to the pandemic is used to suppress criticism of the Chinese. I say this because Chin...
Racism? China is a country, not a race. In fact it’s racist to imply otherwise, and such a charge is an underhanded political ploy to absolve a totali...
I’m not doubting the effectiveness—Chinese authorities welding the doors of apartment buildings so residents couldn’t leave was effective; shipping th...
They are authoritarian, and no amount of euphemism can disguise that. Ordering people under de facto house arrest, checkpoints, curfews, fining people...
It’s a stupid and bad faith argument because it is not about preferring death to recession. That’s a false dilemma. The argument is that we do not nee...
I think it’s simply untrue that people would have done nothing, as if there was no virus ripping through the population. Only a population that has be...
This is not a war. It is a pandemic, more analogous to a natural disaster, a plague. The coming economic collapse, and the reason many of us will be w...
On this matter I think according to principle rather than political ideology. The authoritarian measures have been taken by governments spanning the e...
Male and female brains are “wired” differently, to use that old cliche. “Male brains are structured to facilitate connectivity between perception and ...
That would work. I just don’t think we need fines to wear masks. I would prefer a solution that is both effective and that doesn’t result in the suspe...
Don’t bother. They believe China is a race and the Politburo is a knight in shining armor. Then they’ll spin around and shit on Americans and call for...
One has to assume that the number of asymptomatic or minimally symptomatic cases is several times as high as the number of reported cases to get anywh...
It’s an age old problem. It’s difficult to say that the British Empire was wrong in banning Sati, for instance, the practice of widows sacrificing the...
I hope you’re wrong for the obvious reasons. The “lockdown” metaphor is used to describe the strict nation-wide measures to implement social distancin...
Sweden is an interesting case as they have avoided going full authoritarian and is instead banking on the personal responsibility idea. In due time we...
We know the CCP suppressed and coerced its own doctors in the typical bureaucratic form of Communist parties throughout history, but now US intelligen...
I don’t think these people should be fired over these social media posts, but their rhetoric gives a clear window into the soul of anti-trumpism. NY h...
You guys are really going to let the CCP and WHO slide on this, aren’t you? On January 15th the WHO said there was no evidence of human-to-human infec...
You guys have lost it. While you stretch your imagination to blame “capitalism”, there are verifiable links between the spread of this virus and the C...
Anyone can read them and see otherwise. What is weird is why anyone would refrain criticizing the WHO, and worse, obfuscating any criticism of them. T...
They tweeted it while the CCP was engaged in a coverup. In late December, Taiwan warned the WHO that the virus was infectious, but because of China’s ...
I never said nor implied that. I just think there will be a contingent of people who, whether warranted or not, will say that the WHO has blood on its...
This is interesting. Our World in Data explaining why it switched from using WHO data to relying on data from the European Centre for Disease Preventi...
Yesterday during my daily travels I saw an increasing number of people wearing masks—an odd sight but I think a comforting one given that much of the ...
I think the exact terminology was that trump was “bragging about sexual assault”. This isn’t true, but it no less was the dogma at the time and likely...
No one demands perfect information. I just don’t want important decisions to be made on information that is off by orders of magnitude and based on un...
My kind offer? I would have done what any delivery person would do: carry her bags to her door and be on my merry way. Does that mean I’m going to spr...
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