The false binary that drives American politics is a big part of the problem

More specifically our society's insistence on boiling things down to an "either/or" decision limited to two very narrowly defined choices. And a situation like this magnifies the shortcomings of this arrangement.

Let's ignore the severity of this new disease in the hopes that it goes away. No wait... let's shut everything down to the greatest possible extent in the hopes that we can contain it.

I'll admit that I don't know what the correct approach is, but I am certain that it exists somewhere between the middle of those two extremes. Unfortunately there hasn't been any obvious effort to try anything else at this point.

Sorry for the rant. Triggered by Brother Nuke's "both sides suck" conclusion -- which I wholeheartedly agree with.

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Posted: 05/14/2020 at 09:58AM

How Virginia juked its COVID statistics -- ModerateHokie 05/14/2020 08:46AM

Governor Northam has responded and directed adjustment -- Hokie Fiji 05/14/2020 11:40AM

VA should do the right thing report the number as they do now, but also -- HokieSignGuy 05/14/2020 11:00AM

Also need to stop removing data that was provided. For testing we did... -- RUHokie 05/14/2020 1:32PM

Russia shows how fast this can spread even if you get it under control -- lchoro 05/14/2020 10:55AM

Is homeless and hungry better? a segment of our population is -- fordham 05/14/2020 11:00AM

BTW... _The Atlantic_ gives Virginia an "A+" rating for data quality -- Hokie Fiji 05/14/2020 10:05AM

My eyes tend to glaze over when I see "Atlantic".... -- `lag 05/14/2020 10:53AM

Honestly everything is so screwed there is no telling what is trustworthy ** -- ModerateHokie 05/14/2020 10:08AM

We are all in uncharted territory here -- Hokie Fiji 05/14/2020 09:50AM

VA really bungled this, but so did the whole country. -- vt_mughal 05/14/2020 09:30AM

Just another consequence -- Vippie1 05/14/2020 09:15AM

Except it is a state response, see the governors ruling unconstitutionally -- fordham 05/14/2020 09:29AM

This quote is very telling: -- MP4VT2004 05/14/2020 09:10AM

One side asks how high, the other gets hammered either way, both sides suck ** -- VTNuke 05/14/2020 09:46AM

The false binary that drives American politics is a big part of the problem -- Hokie Fiji 05/14/2020 09:58AM

Us History Majors tend to see things from the same contextual perspective! ** -- VTNuke 05/14/2020 2:53PM

Except the next paragraph contradicts him -- HokieForever 05/14/2020 09:19AM

Not surprised ** -- HokieForever 05/14/2020 09:04AM

That is why any numbers have to be taken as directional only. -- VTJayLaw 05/14/2020 09:02AM

Problem is that as viral numbers go down, antibody numbers might go up, -- ModerateHokie 05/14/2020 09:15AM

Is this approach necessarily wrong or misleading? -- hokie576 05/14/2020 10:13AM

Problem is it's being counted as a positive today, when the person may have -- ModerateHokie 05/14/2020 10:19AM

The false binary that drives American politics is a big part of the problem

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