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oakfarmI must write two more things about what I have written before, how annoyed and disappointed I was in Americans and Brits I followed on social media during the covid-19 pendemic. What I have to add is that while those Americans were on the left side of the political spectrum, the only reason for me not criticizing the right is of course that I don’t follow any people on the right in these countries. I know they too politicised the pandemic. Probably worse.
That was the first, here's the second. Here’s a concrete exemple on my criticism. I can not help but be angry. A Canadian doctor who complains that the politicians did not expand the intensive care capacity.
People were angry at Trump for not wearing a mask all the time. But if politicians fail to adapt healthcare, no one cares?
We know that low quality healthcare kills. We know that economic inequality kills. That is classic left politics, that I have seen too little from the Anglospher during the pandemic. During the pandemic, it for an outsider looks like the left in the English speaking world gambled on the untested methods, to save life. In other words lockdown and public masking.
Now I don’t know the effectiveness of masking the public and lockdowns. There are doctors that will make a big deal out of the fact that the RCTs made on public masking before all this didn’t find any benefit for the masked group. But as far as I know, the other side might have better science on their side. We all read the experts we agree with, since it feels good to hear people say what you believe. But even if you like your masks, and that I can understand, or are one of the 20-30% who enjoy lockdowns, it seems clear it wasn’t the magic bullet. To more or less repeat the point I borrowed from others and have written here before. Countries in Central and East Europe were praised for their fast and hard responses to the pandemic. Coincident or not, whose countries are also poster boys for the ”democratic backsliding” phenomena. But then the second wave came and those countries ended up with crazy high excess mortality- higher than the USA and therefore also higher than Sweden. Plus they have the collateral damage from the lockdowns.
People are dead in these countries, am I saying they would have been less death if they had followed the older pandemic plans? For what it's worth, no, I do not think so. But at least it shows that these democratic backsliding regimes are not superior to our old-fashioned democracy, and that those draconian and spectacular laws are not everything, right? So maybe focusing on masks and lockdowns as the only way to save life might not have been that splendid little decision. What about classic left policy? Lock at the mortality in New York, or in Stockholm, it’s the poor. Inequality kills.
That was the first, here's the second. Here’s a concrete exemple on my criticism. I can not help but be angry. A Canadian doctor who complains that the politicians did not expand the intensive care capacity.
People were angry at Trump for not wearing a mask all the time. But if politicians fail to adapt healthcare, no one cares?
We know that low quality healthcare kills. We know that economic inequality kills. That is classic left politics, that I have seen too little from the Anglospher during the pandemic. During the pandemic, it for an outsider looks like the left in the English speaking world gambled on the untested methods, to save life. In other words lockdown and public masking.
Now I don’t know the effectiveness of masking the public and lockdowns. There are doctors that will make a big deal out of the fact that the RCTs made on public masking before all this didn’t find any benefit for the masked group. But as far as I know, the other side might have better science on their side. We all read the experts we agree with, since it feels good to hear people say what you believe. But even if you like your masks, and that I can understand, or are one of the 20-30% who enjoy lockdowns, it seems clear it wasn’t the magic bullet. To more or less repeat the point I borrowed from others and have written here before. Countries in Central and East Europe were praised for their fast and hard responses to the pandemic. Coincident or not, whose countries are also poster boys for the ”democratic backsliding” phenomena. But then the second wave came and those countries ended up with crazy high excess mortality- higher than the USA and therefore also higher than Sweden. Plus they have the collateral damage from the lockdowns.
People are dead in these countries, am I saying they would have been less death if they had followed the older pandemic plans? For what it's worth, no, I do not think so. But at least it shows that these democratic backsliding regimes are not superior to our old-fashioned democracy, and that those draconian and spectacular laws are not everything, right? So maybe focusing on masks and lockdowns as the only way to save life might not have been that splendid little decision. What about classic left policy? Lock at the mortality in New York, or in Stockholm, it’s the poor. Inequality kills.