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> the right has been pretty consistent about tailoring the response according to risk

Have we forgotten that "this is all a liberal hoax"? Remember HCQ is a cure-all? That's not being consistent--that's completely ignoring science.

The right in the US has been consistent about tailoring its message to AI driven talking points that drive social media engagement. Nothing more.

How about a "free market" solution? Give everybody who earns under $40K a year $2,000 per month unconditionally for the next 6 months. And let businesses reopen. Now, people who want to can go back to work and have a $2K bonus per month on top. Or they can forgo that and sit at home.

Let's see how people actually vote with their feet and wallets.

This, and so much more of this.

I was very careful to mention that the right was correct about this one point. I was hoping to dissuade this kind of overtly partisan reflex post. Clearly I failed.

A stopped clock is correct twice a day--we don't suddenly consider its accuracy improved.

Trying to thread needles like this is disingenuous, at best, and makes you look like an apologist, at worst.

You have a set of political leaders actively hunting for a hook that is sufficiently platable and plausible that they can get people to swallow in order to be exploited for their own power gain. Giving cover to that deserves neither praise nor quarter.

There are plausible solutions that have scientific backing. There are also plausible economic solutions. There are also degrees to those solutions--Switzerland shows this even though it is now matching the US in per capita Covid cases.

NONE of those solutions that would benefit the people have been proposed at the federal level here in the US.

Show me where I argued that their “accuracy improved”. Like I said in the previous post, I’m only noting that they were correct in this instance. I’m certainly not making arguments that Trump’s administration is doing a good job.

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