Schadenfreude is coming!
Mar. 21st, 2020 03:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
robotech_masterIt's funny, it really is.
All the people complaining about the government's and liberals' nefarious motives in imposing the lockdown. Insisting the disease should be treated in ways that don't require so much loss of freedom. Scoffing at news stories showing how bad it's gotten in Italy and could potentially be getting here soon.
What kind of world do they think we're living in? Do they think that not believing in something will make it any less real?
It's kind of like climate change and climate change doubters at a greatly accelerated rate. Some people think we need to do more to stop or reverse the environmental harm we're causing. Others don't think we're actually causing much environmental harm at all and it's just natural processes. But, either way, it's going to be decades before we have the chance to see who was right.
Well, here we are, under an epidemic. And these bozos think the government is crushing our precious liberties, whereas any doctor with any sense is all but panic-stricken that we're not doing nearly enough.
Well, guess what? We're going to find out who is right in a matter of weeks. Possibly days. At the rate the infections are spreading, and given the lack of mandatory controls imposed in most places, we're probably going to reach a tipping point where our healthcare system is totally overwhelmed sooner than later.
I wish I could take more satisfaction in knowing how thoroughly these guys are going to be proved wrong. But I'd really rather people not die. (Yeah, good luck with that.)
All the people complaining about the government's and liberals' nefarious motives in imposing the lockdown. Insisting the disease should be treated in ways that don't require so much loss of freedom. Scoffing at news stories showing how bad it's gotten in Italy and could potentially be getting here soon.
What kind of world do they think we're living in? Do they think that not believing in something will make it any less real?
It's kind of like climate change and climate change doubters at a greatly accelerated rate. Some people think we need to do more to stop or reverse the environmental harm we're causing. Others don't think we're actually causing much environmental harm at all and it's just natural processes. But, either way, it's going to be decades before we have the chance to see who was right.
Well, here we are, under an epidemic. And these bozos think the government is crushing our precious liberties, whereas any doctor with any sense is all but panic-stricken that we're not doing nearly enough.
Well, guess what? We're going to find out who is right in a matter of weeks. Possibly days. At the rate the infections are spreading, and given the lack of mandatory controls imposed in most places, we're probably going to reach a tipping point where our healthcare system is totally overwhelmed sooner than later.
I wish I could take more satisfaction in knowing how thoroughly these guys are going to be proved wrong. But I'd really rather people not die. (Yeah, good luck with that.)