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So imagine if we had done what you suggest and slowed the spread of radio and cinema. People have barely any idea that such things are possible. And then one day Hitler comes along after surreptitiously developing radio and cinema, and distributes it among the German population, and uses it for his propaganda campaigns. Would that have been better?

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Timing is all. You may dislike the analogy - sorry I don't mean to antagonise.

At the start of the pandemic, and in the middle and towards the end there were always voices arguing for "herd immunity now! Let the inevitable happen, as it must".

For me, those voices were too early, until other things had fallen into place. Then they were eventually right.

No worries, I thought it was a good analogy.

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