Dougie doesn't care who dies. If he cared about that, the eviction moratorium would have held for residential renters. In-person schools would not be a thing this year.
In general, Canada has a couple-three cultural constraints -- lack of numeracy, mammonite aversion to public direct production, and deeply entrenched political focus on a cultural proxy war that's there to prevent meaningful public action (and thus any meaningful range of public choices) -- and two really nasty material constraints -- the time to effective medical intervention is unknown but at least another year, and that we have no prospect of economic normalisation until the cousins get their act together, the which they may well never -- so the only effective solutions are inherently large changes from the status quo. With political success defined as minimising the distance from the status quo, rather than extirpating the disease, we have no prospect of an effective response to the pandemic.
(I am coming to the belief that the best single indicator of pandemic response effectiveness is that public production question; if it's "of course the government directly produces medical supplies, and is set up to ramp up quickly in a pandemic when the market will probably fail", things have been going pretty well despite broad differences in form of government and GDP per capita. If not, not.)
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Date: 2020-09-29 02:56 am (UTC)Dougie doesn't care who dies. If he cared about that, the eviction moratorium would have held for residential renters. In-person schools would not be a thing this year.
In general, Canada has a couple-three cultural constraints -- lack of numeracy, mammonite aversion to public direct production, and deeply entrenched political focus on a cultural proxy war that's there to prevent meaningful public action (and thus any meaningful range of public choices) -- and two really nasty material constraints -- the time to effective medical intervention is unknown but at least another year, and that we have no prospect of economic normalisation until the cousins get their act together, the which they may well never -- so the only effective solutions are inherently large changes from the status quo. With political success defined as minimising the distance from the status quo, rather than extirpating the disease, we have no prospect of an effective response to the pandemic.
(I am coming to the belief that the best single indicator of pandemic response effectiveness is that public production question; if it's "of course the government directly produces medical supplies, and is set up to ramp up quickly in a pandemic when the market will probably fail", things have been going pretty well despite broad differences in form of government and GDP per capita. If not, not.)