We are so lucky this is a fragile virus, yeah. Though the folks looking into UV are using the "must wear eye protection" values of UV, so it's not especially helpful if all office space has to be lit with grow lights.
You're totally correct about sufficient but I don't think it's going to work in PR terms as the morbidity information starts getting filled in and publicised. I think polio is going to be a better analogy than TB; if you live, you will be damaged. (Which for people who had severe enough cases to notice does seem to be fairly close to an accurate statement.) The degree of freaking out about polio was extensive. An endemic, get-it-again, all-ages polio is going to put a lot of strain on already questionable constructions of legitimacy.
I pay a bit of attention to NC politics through following Ursula Vernon's tweets, so yes. The Banksian "outside context problem" comes to mind; authority solves social problems, not material ones. People think it does because material problems with customary solutions reduce to social, but this is a mistake. And authority has no other answers; authoritarian systems are removed, they don't alter in substance.
Might go so far as to say they've got large-scale civil unrest in the sunbelt now; whether they tip right over into a general insurrection will be interesting, as is the mythological status accorded to Trump's indifference to Russian bounties on American military personnel.
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Date: 2020-06-28 11:04 pm (UTC)You're totally correct about sufficient but I don't think it's going to work in PR terms as the morbidity information starts getting filled in and publicised. I think polio is going to be a better analogy than TB; if you live, you will be damaged. (Which for people who had severe enough cases to notice does seem to be fairly close to an accurate statement.) The degree of freaking out about polio was extensive. An endemic, get-it-again, all-ages polio is going to put a lot of strain on already questionable constructions of legitimacy.
I pay a bit of attention to NC politics through following Ursula Vernon's tweets, so yes. The Banksian "outside context problem" comes to mind; authority solves social problems, not material ones. People think it does because material problems with customary solutions reduce to social, but this is a mistake. And authority has no other answers; authoritarian systems are removed, they don't alter in substance.
Might go so far as to say they've got large-scale civil unrest in the sunbelt now; whether they tip right over into a general insurrection will be interesting, as is the mythological status accorded to Trump's indifference to Russian bounties on American military personnel.