I'm avoiding news, but somehow have still caught wind of riots in Michigan, which we are apparently trying to stave off with preliminary plans to "re-open" the country.
This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of why there are armed mobs forming on all sides. Social contact is a fundamental human need in a way that TPS reports are decidedly not. Any plan that "allows" people to spend 40+ hours a week at work while forbidding them to spend Sunday dinner with their parents or having a beer with the neighbors is mainly going to result in a 4000% rise in people ordering torches and pitchforks from Amazon.
We are approaching the point where people will literally choose to die rather than remain in strict isolation. You are not going to get people under intense psychiatric strain to make scientifically-rational decisions, and frankly, there are a lot more of them than there are of you. They are angry and (emotionally) starving, and have a lot of decentralized methods of communication to use for organization, which you all designed to be unkillable even in the event of global nuclear war. Whoops!
The smart thing to do here would be to pour all of your efforts into fortifying healthcare, and ramping up testing and tracking while people are still being moderately cooperative, so you have a more robust method of harm reduction for when everyone busts down the doors and swarms the streets. Because that's coming.
This betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of why there are armed mobs forming on all sides. Social contact is a fundamental human need in a way that TPS reports are decidedly not. Any plan that "allows" people to spend 40+ hours a week at work while forbidding them to spend Sunday dinner with their parents or having a beer with the neighbors is mainly going to result in a 4000% rise in people ordering torches and pitchforks from Amazon.
We are approaching the point where people will literally choose to die rather than remain in strict isolation. You are not going to get people under intense psychiatric strain to make scientifically-rational decisions, and frankly, there are a lot more of them than there are of you. They are angry and (emotionally) starving, and have a lot of decentralized methods of communication to use for organization, which you all designed to be unkillable even in the event of global nuclear war. Whoops!
The smart thing to do here would be to pour all of your efforts into fortifying healthcare, and ramping up testing and tracking while people are still being moderately cooperative, so you have a more robust method of harm reduction for when everyone busts down the doors and swarms the streets. Because that's coming.
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