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Culture War Roundup for the week of October 10, 2022

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Covid was not an emergency and protecting us from mentally ill people dragging the rest of society along with their weird agenda, no matter the cost, is one of the core functions of government under the current iteration of the social contract. If the government instead acquiesced to these weirdos then the social contract is violated and the government has forfeited the Mandate of Heaven.

Covid was not an emergency

What about hospitals overflowing, not enough ventilators, etc.?

These were fake news items. Hospitals didn’t go over capacity and ventilators were known not to be the best treatment option.

Maybe in India and Brazil, not AFAIK in the US, certainly not in Europe.

There was always talk of these things as being just around the next corner, happening any minute now, if we do not pull all the stops and do everything now. Same narrative as with climate change. Problems first exaggerated and then extrapolated to justify maximalist demands for whatever measures. Not necessarily because anyone likes the measures, but these things seem to take on dynamics of their own in interactions between public, politics and media.

There was also the argument "people don't understand exponential growth. If it goes to half capacity it could easily go to full capacity tomorrow".

Turns out that people did understand exponential growth.