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It's from Slashdot, which tends to be a very left leaning junk tech site.

The US has had very few lockdowns, and the lockdowns there have been have been strictly local affairs.

But yes, it's presumably COVID related, which is frustrating because had we taken the two opportunities available to us (close down for a month early in the pandemic, and keep the borders closed with strict quarantines for those returning from foreign countries until COVID went away), or "Two months of everyone getting mandatory vaccines, with teachers, first responders, nursing staff, and others likely to spread the disease put higher in the queue" which was possible early this year, we wouldn't be in this situation.

Unfortunately we have politicians too chickenshit, and too pandering, or too out of touch, for either to have been done.

I seem to remember someone trying to close the borders for a while when this happened. What was his name again? Got called a xenophobe...

It's from Slashdot, which tends to be a very left leaning junk tech site. >The US has had very few lockdowns, and the lockdowns there have been have been strictly local affairs. >But yes, it's presumably COVID related, which is frustrating because had we taken the two opportunities available to us (close down for a month early in the pandemic, and keep the borders closed with strict quarantines for those returning from foreign countries until COVID went away), or "Two months of everyone getting mandatory vaccines, with teachers, first responders, nursing staff, and others likely to spread the disease put higher in the queue" which was possible early this year, we wouldn't be in this situation. >Unfortunately we have politicians too chickenshit, and too pandering, or too out of touch, for either to have been done. I seem to remember someone trying to close the borders for a while when this happened. What was his name again? Got called a xenophobe...

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[–] • 2 pts

Which is sad because I would expect them to have the mathematical intuition to understand the implausibility of containing a virus temporally to an extent that you never have to deal with it again.

These people are by definition smarter than this. Which means they are intentionally lying to themselves for some reason.

[–] • 1 pt

Just because someone has the intellectual capacity to see through this literally retarded bullshit, the desire to not be ostracized is stronger than the desire to know the truth. I saw this all the time when I was in college ( engineering, definitely more of us that weren't typical college Marxist types than like all other disciplines but you'd be surprised how many engineering students were like that )

[–] • 0 pt

Theyre smart, but not immune to demoralization. Theyre midwits

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

They simply believe what the TV tells them. I know a lot of smart people who actually trust CNN. Brainwashing is the universal equalizer. Not that right wingers are immune. They take anything any anti-establishment doctor says and parrot it without understanding.

Look! A doctor who agrees with me and did I mention he’s a DOCTOR?!?!? After spending the previous day railing about how stupid doctors are.

[–] [deleted] • 0 pt

Holy fuck is that rich coming from you, TDS boy.