MadMonzer
Temporarily embarassed liberal elite
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Bergamo, where most of the viral images of overwhelmed hospitals came from, is a municipality of 120,000 people with a metro area population of c. 500,000, unless you consider the whole Bergamo area a suburb of Milan. The population within city limits is 25.4% over 65, which is only marginally more geriatric than Italy as a whole.
I don't know why Bergamo was such a mess, although I suspect the answer is "they were the first city other than Wuhan to be hit badly and had no clue what they were doing".
extra-lockdown-loving Australia
The average Australian spent less time locked down that the average Brit or American - only Melbourne had an extra-long lockdown.
There was 0 chance it wasn't going to go full epidemic eventually,
Plenty of countries where it didn't (Korea, Japan, Taiwan being the clear-cut cases). That no western country managed the pandemic as well as those three was a policy choice.
Although given the aesthetics of the Red and Blue tribes in 2026, dressing well increasingly constitutes dressing like a liberal. Plenty of women have fantasies about being tied to a bed and sexually ravished by a man dressed in a way die_workwear would approve of.
There was a proof of concept that Robin Hanson, at least, should have been aware of and was not. Legal sportsbooks in the UK (which are ubiquitous - every high street has multiple betting shops outside the most salubrious areas) can take bets on anything (except the results of the National Lottery draw and the outcomes of court cases), as can UK-based betting exchanges like Betfair, so prediction markets are effectively legal. The only non-sports markets that attracted any liquidity were election results and "celebrity specials" like royal baby names.
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It's the standard standard since time immemorial. Allowing military use of your territory is incompatible with neutrality.
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