09-07-2021Quote:
IMO the US in general relied far too heavily on mass lockdowns in the early days, but it became very apparent, very quickly, that was overreach, that light social distancing would have a huge impact. The latter would affect some industries dis proportionally (ie us) but would not have as much of an impact on the broader economy. But a large segment of the population had an emotional backlash and went hard over the other direction, with predictable results.
Governors either didn't consider the emotional impact (or maybe just didn't care, if they had ulterior motives). Leadership is an art form, some of our autocratic party hacks didn't realize it's not as simple as giving orders to robots. Fuel to the fire was the complete lack of communication as to the way ahead... timeline, metrics, etc. My governor actually had the audacity to say at one point that the standard was something like zero deaths for 14 days. By that logic we need to get a bunch of big caterpillar machines out to tear up the interstate highway system.
The lockdowns are the only thing that saved more people from massive amounts of deaths. As far as leadership, those guys are just like you and me they’re not superhuman. This was an unprecedented event, you can’t expect them to have all the answers. What was actually surprising for everyone or at least underestimated was the ability for the US population to not take a global pandemic seriously. Governors were literally pleading for people to listen. I guess history will be the judge of all this.Originally Posted by rickair7777
You mean "trust their governments to shoot them in the back if they don't comply"IMO the US in general relied far too heavily on mass lockdowns in the early days, but it became very apparent, very quickly, that was overreach, that light social distancing would have a huge impact. The latter would affect some industries dis proportionally (ie us) but would not have as much of an impact on the broader economy. But a large segment of the population had an emotional backlash and went hard over the other direction, with predictable results.
Governors either didn't consider the emotional impact (or maybe just didn't care, if they had ulterior motives). Leadership is an art form, some of our autocratic party hacks didn't realize it's not as simple as giving orders to robots. Fuel to the fire was the complete lack of communication as to the way ahead... timeline, metrics, etc. My governor actually had the audacity to say at one point that the standard was something like zero deaths for 14 days. By that logic we need to get a bunch of big caterpillar machines out to tear up the interstate highway system.
