[ExI] chinese fires, was:RE: book review

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 22:35:59 UTC 2022


On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 03:48, spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> On Thu, 1 Dec 2022 at 02:34, spike jones via extropy-chat <
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> Clearly their system isn’t working.  I suppose that would depend on how one
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> >…It’s the classic way of dealing with an epidemic. It’s how the original
> SARS was stopped. It’s what they should have done as aggressively as
> possible, but didn’t, at the start in Wuhan. The two problems now are that
> it isn’t working because the infectivity of the current strain is too high
> and, on a cost - benefit analysis, the cost of the ongoing lockdowns is too
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> Stathis Papaioannou
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> Ja Stathis, I see it as a kind of solution.
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> My Chinese neighbor who witnessed the Great Leap (no particular direction
> specified) has educated me.  He really does have a fundamentally different
> mindset, a very different attitude toward government than a typical
> American.  From his point of view, if the government says do something, you
> damn well do it.  He continues to be amazed by me and his own American-born
> son who go off asking if the order is legal.
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If you disagree with what the Court says is legal, that’s just your bad
luck.

> The son is American to the core but his Chinese father doesn’t really get
> the whole differing levels of government with differing rights and powers
> bit.  To him, any official is government and it is all the same.
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> I am imagining Chinese apartment buildings full of guys with his mindset.
> They are being locked into a tower with no egress allowed, even in a fire,
> authorities under orders to use lethal force to protect the proletariat
> against… a mild flu.
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> My fond hope is that the outcome of all this is at least a big change in
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