This is, you know, American progressivism, essentially, from the early part of the century. The meritocracy gets corrupted by all this race stuff or whatever. And here's how COVID happens: SARS-1 basically jumps from a bat to a palm sieve and kills about 20% of the people that have it. It's not just a very complex delta COVID, which was a nasty disease,. You know, look like the common cold. It's an important problem. This kind of government by experts principle almost looks like it's no government at all in oligarchies.

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