When This Blows Over

just ask people to act responsibly and they will. In countries
where no one understands or trusts one another, like ours, you
don’t have that luxury.
So if everyone listening to the best experts with the most information shut
down, the chance is that Angry Twitter Guy who read three articles
confirming his already-formed opinion would also have shut down if he
had been in their position. In other words, even if the decision was wrong,
it’s the one virtually everyone would have made. We know this, because
virtually everyone did. Which means Angry Twitter Guy, who thinks it’s
“outrageous” and “insane,” only thinks that because he’s Angry Twitter
Guy, and not the president of anything.
There’s a lot of Outrage Noise out there. Some of it is justified.
But beyond the noise, what has actually happened – the shutdown,
the move to restart with proper precautions – these are the sad but
probably inevitable results of a tragic occurrence.
Fortitude in the face of them is a virtue.
Andrew Klavan