Originally Posted by
Mark Rippetoe
Yes, Hurling, he and SD have zero clues about what has happened here. They still think this is about how bad the disease is, and everybody else knows it's about how bad the government fucked this up and what that did to our society. Imagine going to a dinner party in East Germany in 1980: what went through your mind as you accepted the invitation, decided what to wear, left your house, walked in the door to your host's house, mingled with the guests, carefully decided how to respond to every interaction, carefully decided when to leave, went home, and wondered for the next 3 days if you were going to get a visit about an error you made. In 6 weeks, our country has turned into a light beer version of East Germany, and people will never feel the same way about things as they did in February. Never again. All calculations have changed because Shiva and his buddies are afraid someone might get sick and his hospital might be "overwhelmed."
Or is that really what they're doing? Are they actually this dense, or is it more plausible that he and SD work for government at some level (Bruno was fired for incompetence, lazyass was too irritating to be believed so they moved him to HR), and that their job all along has been to fan the fear of the disease so that control of the population can be seized? Where else are they posting/working on this project? Their jobs are secure, but what are they paid?
This is what I mean by the calculations changing within society. We don't know, so now we assume the worst here in New America.
Don't worry, Soule, there will be a government program for that.