DYSPEPSIA GENERATION

The problem with the coronavirus situation has two parts:

1. The people who are making the decisions to effectively shut down the economy are not the people who are going to most suffer the effects of those decisions. Politicians will still receive their paychecks, academics will still receive their paychecks, ‘journalists’ will still receive their paychecks, highly-computerized professionals who can work from home will still receive their paychecks, so it’s very easy for them to say HEY, EVERYBODY, STAY IN YOUR HOUSE FOR A MONTH because they can do that and it’s no more than an inconvenience.
2. The incentives for elected officials are all going the wrong way. If they overreact and overreach and things turn out not to be as bad as they are predicting, nobody (besides people like me) will blame them, but if they underreact, and people get the disease and die, it lays them open to accusations of Not Doing Enough — and don’t think they don’t know that. So there is no downside for them in overreacting and shutting everything down, even if it hurts people that didn’t actually need to get hurt.

Please call your local politicians and plead with them not to overreact. The future you save may be your own.

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