BobAjobb wrote:
PhilipShambrook wrote:
A lot of the actions have been taken based on inadequate information; almost a knee jerk reaction perhaps. There is a lot unknown about this virus that has generated a lot of fear and a race amongst governments to do what they think right. Hindsight is always right so we should not be arguing the merits or otherwise of actions that governments have or have not taken. This was published online here in New Zealand this morning - https://www.stuff.co.nz/...lly-match-the-threat
We do need to look at the measures objectively as more information is gathered. Governments simply do not have enough knowledge to do anything else.
It will be interesting to see how things unfold in Sweden.
Some key differences in Sweden vs countries like the UK, USA, Canada, Australia.
- the demographic is wuite different (many more live as singles, very few extended-family households
- a huge amount more 'self control' and personal responsibility in the population
- larger proportion can work remotely anyway
- a lot less fheckwhits ignoring good advice than in any of the Anglophone countries.
Keep in mind this is how Greg Lemond the tour de France in the first place. He ignored the advice of the Euro establishment and brought an innovation from the ski world that he learned of from American triathletes and smoked Laurent Fignon by 8 seconds to win the Tour De France.
I would say you kind of hit it that in the aforementioned English speaking countries, we do have that tendency....it bore inventors like Isaac Newton, James Watt, Alexander Bell (among many many more) and gave rise to companies like HP (the original garage startup in Silicon Valley) and later Microsoft and Google. So we can't have it both ways. Countries that innovate essentially have to reward individual questioning of the status quo and a desire to push outside the establishment. This forum exists thanks to slowman inventing the aerobars and the triathlon wetsuit. Ironman was invented in America. So, yes I do think there is a sliver of truth that it is more difficult to get individuals in some countries to "follow" but because the countries reward leadership and to some degree questioning of "the way it is", you get all these amazing transformations of society.
Other countries may be happier to follow and those societies are easier to get organized around a framework on any topic. Its hard to have it both ways.
The same fuckwhits that ignore good advice give you your iPhone, your google account, Amazon delivery, first manned flight, first crossing of the sonic barrier, first man on the moon, commercializing the CMOS transistor, inventing the internet (DARPA), Hollywood and a fairly long list of achievements that few nations can come even close to. (by the way, I am not American).