One thing I’ve found very frustrating in the pandemic discourse - and it really is common on both sides - is the refusal to admit that one’s preferred policies have any legitimate downsides.
I thought that the so-called lockdowns should have been longer and stricter than they were. I think I still believe that now, though I’ve gotten a bi…
One thing I’ve found very frustrating in the pandemic discourse - and it really is common on both sides - is the refusal to admit that one’s preferred policies have any legitimate downsides.
I thought that the so-called lockdowns should have been longer and stricter than they were. I think I still believe that now, though I’ve gotten a bit less certain. But I have no problem at all with the “genuine hardship” excerpt. It shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge these things.
I think that locking down was an appropriate sacrifice to ask of people during a serious shared emergency that was no one’s fault and didn’t care how we felt about it. It was good policy, I think. I would have gone further, and for my own part I did. But it wasn’t easy or pleasant. I’m still coming to terms with some of the effects that it on me.
But being on the “pro-lockdown” side of things (and pro-mask, etc.) I see so much casual dismissal of people’s problems, so many people written off as “whiny babies” or something, and I can’t imagine how that’s supposed to be persuasive to very many people.
I have a friend who had a harder time with “lockdown” than I did. He doesn’t support the convoy, but he sympathizes with some of its supporters more easily than I do. I find it very helpful to pick his brain sometimes on what their perspective might be on a given issue.
Sounds like the report addresses these things well.
The lockdown was very different for different people. Those who could work from home and keep their jobs thought it was fine or didn't go far enough. I know my barber, whose whole family worked at the salon, had to shut his doors and got no help from his landlord has a different opinion, as do my offspring who both lost their jobs. Those people who had to work through the unknown for shitty pay (clerks, delivery people, nurses etc) would also have a different view. And many of them had children who were locked out of schools which made everything worse. So sure maybe the lockdown made you feel secure and you think it was appropriate for you but try on a different pair of shoes and you may understand why the convoy appealed.
One thing I’ve found very frustrating in the pandemic discourse - and it really is common on both sides - is the refusal to admit that one’s preferred policies have any legitimate downsides.
I thought that the so-called lockdowns should have been longer and stricter than they were. I think I still believe that now, though I’ve gotten a bit less certain. But I have no problem at all with the “genuine hardship” excerpt. It shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge these things.
I think that locking down was an appropriate sacrifice to ask of people during a serious shared emergency that was no one’s fault and didn’t care how we felt about it. It was good policy, I think. I would have gone further, and for my own part I did. But it wasn’t easy or pleasant. I’m still coming to terms with some of the effects that it on me.
But being on the “pro-lockdown” side of things (and pro-mask, etc.) I see so much casual dismissal of people’s problems, so many people written off as “whiny babies” or something, and I can’t imagine how that’s supposed to be persuasive to very many people.
I have a friend who had a harder time with “lockdown” than I did. He doesn’t support the convoy, but he sympathizes with some of its supporters more easily than I do. I find it very helpful to pick his brain sometimes on what their perspective might be on a given issue.
Sounds like the report addresses these things well.
The lockdown was very different for different people. Those who could work from home and keep their jobs thought it was fine or didn't go far enough. I know my barber, whose whole family worked at the salon, had to shut his doors and got no help from his landlord has a different opinion, as do my offspring who both lost their jobs. Those people who had to work through the unknown for shitty pay (clerks, delivery people, nurses etc) would also have a different view. And many of them had children who were locked out of schools which made everything worse. So sure maybe the lockdown made you feel secure and you think it was appropriate for you but try on a different pair of shoes and you may understand why the convoy appealed.