2026-05-12 12:46 UTC
@johnzajac@dice.camp @croissant@zeroes.ca i also really fear the wrong lessons were taken out of covid, public policy has been seen as a catastrophic failure, both enormously costly on the economy (we still pay the price to this day), ineffective at solving it (i still think lockdowns saved a lot of people, buying precious time and allowing the system to handle the load better, but in the end the resolution was "giving up"), and also it was so costly politically, that they don't want to go through that again.
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@johnzajac@dice.camp 2026-05-12 12:48
@tshirtman@mas.to @croissant@zeroes.ca Lockdowns didn't exist in the United States; most States had 2-4 weeks of precautions, followed by...literally nothing but death and disease. A few States (with big cities and blue govts) kept precautions for ~6 months, but they were never compulsory and people literally stopped caring about them by midsummer. It's why our death toll and LC burden per capita is literally multiples larger than any other modern nation.