Re: What's Going on in the Americas?
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You perhaps understand that everything after the question mark in the url is crap, along with the question mark.
My apologies. Sorry for the inconvenience, if there was one... (Fixed it, now. I'll be more careful in the future.) BTW: I assume "the crap" allows the site to know that a visit came as the result of an email re-direct... Do you oppose such analytics?
overall, the global pandemic is real and this is what life looks like in a real global pandemic. Science cannot help us out of it.
That's a very pessimistic view... And not everyone will accept such fatalism.
Think of medieval plague. What could the scientists at the time, the elect, the respected and the wealthy done better? Not much.
Well, we did get Boccaccio's Decameron! (And the Epidemiological Fallacy...)
The "at the time" proviso does allow us considerable leeway: We've learned a bit since the Middle Ages. Of medicine, of sanitation, of administration. About the latter, I'd agree that most states seem not to have learned much; but I also expect political action will remove many an incompetent leader. And -in time- allow a more rational ambit to minor functionaries and a more realistic recognition of in what expertise consists.
I don't expect we'll get a perfect world! Nor do I believe we'll just live with dystopia.