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Originally Posted by DaFace
I'm, admittedly, naive when it comes to political discourse. I don't watch TV news at all. I've probably spent less than an hour total in the past year reading threads in DC. I get most of my news from scrolling Google News, which gives me news from a variety of sources, and I don't really get excited about sensationalist headlines.
It's beyond my understanding that the people who keep our water and food safe, who work to reduce substance abuse, improve mental health, improve air quality, and just generally keep people healthy, are now being politicised. I do research studies with public health departments. I can assure you that none of them are in it for the money.
So yeah, I'm pretty surprised at how this has all gone.
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In the Imperial College paper that the UK and the US latched on to do the lockdown the authors stated that there were two basic ways of dealing with this. Mitigation or containment. Both have pros and cons but the public was fed containment as the only road possible. Now that the hospital systems are not overwhelmed in most of the country I believe there will be much more discussion about the road not take or even presented.