Comments by "dixon pinfold" (@dixonpinfold2582) on "Channel 4 News"
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@realfreedom8932 But is that not perhaps a promising indicator? When I was much younger and foolishly mixed up with investment bankers, a couple of them once told me that they paid attention to the parking lot when they visited clients. If the senior management drove expensive cars, they told me, they took it as a bad sign. If they saw instead Subarus, Maximas, Oldsmobiles, Passats, and the like, they deduced they were dealing with more solid and trustworthy people and conducted business afterward in part with that in mind. I never forgot the distinction. (They themselves sometimes preferred M series sedans and Jaguars, but let that pass. They didn't have shareholders and thousands of employees depending on them, just scores of women and bartenders.) Cheers.
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So what would you have done? Built a thousand new hospitals, something that takes a generation to do? Invented a vaccine, something that takes a full year to do? Trained thousands of doctors and nurses, something it takes a decade to do? Expanded the manufacturing of masks, something it takes years to do?
Testing capacity ought to have been ramped up, I would agree, but I don't think that's necessarily possible. The governments have money and authority but they don't have magic wands. Aside from that the only reasonable measures to take in advance of the spread were to alert the public and hospitals to be ready to take basic precautions and make basic preparations.
Drug companies and university labs need no prompting whatever to begin doing whatever they can. The public would never have accepted travel bans, nationwide shutdowns, and extensive quarantining while under one person in a million was infected.
Now that economic effects are emerging, governments are taking steps on that front. Their timing has been just about right.
You can warn, you can inform, you can succour, you can write some cheques, and you can reassure, but you can't confine every person on Earth and you can't write a law against a plague.
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@Redfoxx-pg7km You wrote: "... right wing/mainstream (same thing really...)"
The mainstream is right-wing, you say? This assertion is unhelpful in every way except one: it tells us how far left you are.
From the North Pole all points, however frozen and bleak they may in fact be, are South. In like manner, from the Left Pole all points are Right.
I've come to believe that Left extremism and Right extremism alike are, far from being separate phenomena of thought, in fact a single aspect of personality. You and your mirror-image counterparts on the Right are indeed brethren and sisters at heart, less in thought than in character, with highly similar feelings, reactions, hopes, and instincts to one another. Extremes meet, I was told in boyhood, and I have found it to be true.
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