Thursday 3 December 2020
Just round the corner
The point really is that I was always certain that there was a miraculous state of being just round the corner if I could only find it.
Hugh Walpole - John Cornelius (1937)
Government intervention is always an easy sell.
Government non-intervention is never an easy sell.
Many know it.
Too many don’t.
Hence the coronavirus debacle - government intervention was an easy sell. Still surprising to many perhaps as we gave away to much, but clearly it was an easy sell.
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This Twitter thread documents clearly how wrong has been communist-style massive government intervention in China for COVID:
https://twitter.com/thatalicewu/status/1330287079708893184
Because many politicians are unqualified to make rational decisions, the fact that they faced having to make some difficult arrangements with 'death' possible if they got it wrong, made them seem even more incompetent than they were in the first place.
Had the pandemic been for a 'normal' flu, the conditions would have been entirely different, because they would assume that they knew what they were talking about, from 'experience'.
Blissex - yes, some people do seem drawn to the idea of a more paramilitary approach.
Scrobs - good point. Having to rely on experts has major weaknesses as the political class is now discovering yet again. Who appoints the experts? What we end up with by default are the successful greasy pole climbers.
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