The ceaseless drumbeat and whining about how hard it is to wear masks, socially distance, give up going out to dine and drink, etc., etc., has culminated in the success of the Republican plan to show the country before the midterms that 1) Trump wasn't so bad because t=you can't defeat this virus and 2) Joe Biden is terrible because he said he would beat this virus and didn't.
Waiting for Marjorie Taylor Greene or someone like her to poo-poo the idea that rabies is a singularly deadly, well-nigh untreatable disease. Something along the lines of "There was that one girl in Wisconsin who survived, so there!" but with less factual references.
"That would require her to consider the pandemic as an interdependent society-wide problem, rather than a collection of atomized choices about how much any particular person might worry about getting sick.": Besides, they're little people, doncha know. It's not as though their lives - or yours or mine - actually matter to Persons of Quality like Ms. Wen.
"There aren't enough rabid foxes available to bite everyone who needs to be bitten.": Sooo true.
"Better to assume the conflict is all in the past, in the hopes of avoiding more conflict in the future.": Much like the Weimar Republic, which sentenced the leader of the "beer hall putsch" of 1923, a fellow named Adolf Hitler, to five years in prison but released him after nine months, for the sake of "healing" and "unity".
The ceaseless drumbeat and whining about how hard it is to wear masks, socially distance, give up going out to dine and drink, etc., etc., has culminated in the success of the Republican plan to show the country before the midterms that 1) Trump wasn't so bad because t=you can't defeat this virus and 2) Joe Biden is terrible because he said he would beat this virus and didn't.
Waiting for Marjorie Taylor Greene or someone like her to poo-poo the idea that rabies is a singularly deadly, well-nigh untreatable disease. Something along the lines of "There was that one girl in Wisconsin who survived, so there!" but with less factual references.
"That would require her to consider the pandemic as an interdependent society-wide problem, rather than a collection of atomized choices about how much any particular person might worry about getting sick.": Besides, they're little people, doncha know. It's not as though their lives - or yours or mine - actually matter to Persons of Quality like Ms. Wen.
"There aren't enough rabid foxes available to bite everyone who needs to be bitten.": Sooo true.
"Better to assume the conflict is all in the past, in the hopes of avoiding more conflict in the future.": Much like the Weimar Republic, which sentenced the leader of the "beer hall putsch" of 1923, a fellow named Adolf Hitler, to five years in prison but released him after nine months, for the sake of "healing" and "unity".