-Because for a narcissistic, totalitarian sociopath, this could very well be fun.
“about the time someone was getting infected by a bat”
False.
Never demonstrated, regularly disproved.
I come down on fun. No one’s giving a computer modeler anything like serious money. They’ll just take his koo-koo analysis and figure out a way to monetize it for themselves.
...And how!
It’s all about the power. Read 1984 again. We are living it today. Our politicians just want more and more power.
Interesting question.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3919264/posts
Communist Coercive Methods by cheshirethecat
Quite a lot of people, many who I didn't expect, agree with him - it's an exciting new tool to use in the cause of social reform. In China there is no effective difference between "conform or the virus will kill you" and "conform or the government will". That has not escaped the notice of totalitarians everywhere. I just didn't realize there were quite that many of them.
“I think people’s sense of what is possible in terms of control changed quite dramatically between January and March,” Professor Ferguson says..." "We couldn’t get away with it in Europe, we thought."
"We" thought. Who thought? Add this one to David Brooks' arrogant but revealing comments on the Expert Class and you'll realize who - journalists, academics such as Professor Pantsdown, and politicians. "There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters." (Daniel Webster). That's who.
And yet, with all the draconian policies put into place in China, with the mountains of ‘deactivated’ cell phones attesting to casualties, they have never stopped the spread and are locking down again in Beijing.
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