I think the world more or less understands that American politics oscillates between periods of conservative control and liberal control.
I don’t think the world has forgotten about America’s massive military or its massive economy.
To say Trump has “ended America’s standing” is extremely short sighted... Whether you like him or not, he has not changed in any material way the military or the economy or the political systems that form the foundation of America.
Imagine the world in only 10 years from now. 2030. Will the American economy still be intact and humming along? Will the military still be well funded? Will the political system still be the same?
Facts by themselves aren’t political or have an agenda.
The decision to present certain facts, the other facts you compare those to, and the manner in which they are presented, however, invokes agendas and politics.
No matter how much people claim otherwise, doctors presenting facts have agendas. This includes Dr Fauci.
Being allowed to return to work or a business you run, being able to pay rent, feed your family, etc.
These are positive outcomes of lockdowns being lifted.
The danger in looking at this as a binary “opening kills people” is that you miss the trade offs and in doing so you miss the other nuanced policy options that sit in between complete lockdown and no lockdown.
You should be looking at one woman over those five years.
For companies, you are probably looking at multiple developers and if you do only have one opening then even if more than one is good there is going to be a best.
When you have an immovable object (can’t fire an employee due to law) up against an unstoppable force (economic pressure to cut jobs) you get actions that try to bend either of the above constraints.
In the end something had to break — either the company or the people or both.
No one forced these people to either work at the company or to commit suicide.
Yes their pensions were linked to their jobs but is quitting and losing your retirement better than death?
Or maybe they wanted to be martyrs and knew this would lead to a punishment for the executives.
Ok but then if one country doesn’t do this then another will.
It’s like nuclear weapons.
You cannot reverse or stop technology from progressing and you can’t stop governments from using that technology to build weapons.
How many wars did it take for humans to adopt a different “steady state”? And even now it’s not a real steady state.
Maybe we have more lessons (I.e mistakes) to learn from in space where billions die. Hopefully not. Hopefully we let the 20th century continue to instruct us.
For a few people losing weight is complex. For most people, it’s simple.
Eat less. Move more.
Saying otherwise is a cop out.