RE: Society's COVID Disconnect - a product of perceiving numbers

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When it comes down to it, I think Eric Weinstein's theory is the most unifying: The harsh lockdowns and other restrictive measures flow from the politicians and institutional leaders who have failed to prepare for a pandemic, despite plenty of available foresight. And these measures are their collective failure to live up to their responsibilities. The responsibility was offloaded en masse to the people of the world and the global economy, with catastrophic but predictable results.

SARS should have taught some lessons and it did, except to the majority of people who were in the positions to make decisions to prepare. Preparation means reasonable surveillance and plans to react to a spreading disease. It means stockpiling of medical supplies for a rainy day. It means preparing for an occasional spike in hospital and ICU demand.

Instead, seeing a potential body count because these so-called leaders failed to prepare, they offloaded the responsibility to everyone else, and then claimed the moral high ground if people didn't want to drastically change their way of life. The people in a position to prepare that knew better, and did nothing (or even worse sometimes actively removed preparations) have no ground to stand on.

Why is it unifying? Because it puts the responsibility for the failures of governance, preparation, and leadership on the people that it belongs to. Rather than bicker with team A vs team B, we as a whole need to hold the people that made every poor decision accountable.



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Hear, hear.

I then ask how it is such people got into power. I've been wondering this for 15 years, watching poor leaders run for office while good leaders devoted their lives elsewhere. I don't see this changing:/ So, in my view, it's best then that gov't lessens in its influence over our lives. Smart, outspoken people like Weinstein can perhaps wield more power of their own.

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