[FRIAM] ill-conceived question

[Merle Lefkoff]

Gary, he's on CNN (Cable) on Sunday mornings.  I'm not sure how to get it
anywhere later.

On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:03 AM Gary Schiltz <gary at naturesvisualarts.com>
wrote:

> Merle, I'd like to watch that interview. Do you watch Fareed over cable or
> satellite, or over the internet?
>
> On Sun, May 3, 2020 at 11:55 AM Merle Lefkoff <merlelefkoff at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Nick, the only mainstream news program I watch is Fareed Zakaria on
>> Sunday morning.  Below is part of this morning's report.  Not surprisingly
>> (for those of us who have had the privilege recently of spending time in
>> Sweden), the answer to how it's working, is just about like the countries
>> that are locked down, with one exception.  More deaths (mostly among the
>> elderly who primarily live together in retirement).
>>
>> As world governments employ different policies to fight Covid-19,
>> Sweden’s relaxed approach stands out: Eschewing lockdowns, the country has
>> left its schools, gyms, cafes, bars and restaurants open throughout the
>> spread of the pandemic. Fareed interviews the man behind that strategy, *Anders
>> Tegnell*, the Swedish government’s top epidemiologist, about how it’s
>> working and whether his country can offer any lessons to the rest of the
>> world.
>>
>> On Sat, May 2, 2020 at 10:34 AM <thompnickson2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Colleagues,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I have asked this question before and nobody has responded (for clear
>>> and good reasons, no doubt) but I thought I would ask it again.  What
>>> exactly is this economy we are bent on reviving?  What exactly is the
>>> difference in human activity between our present state and a revived
>>> economy.  We can go to bars and concerts and football games?  Is that the
>>> economy we are reviving?  It seems to me that the difference between a
>>> “healty” economy and our present status consists possibly in nothing more
>>> than a lot of people frantically rushing about doing things they don’t
>>> really need to do?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> You recall that I invoked as a model that experiment in which 24 rats
>>> were put in a quarter acre enclosure in Baltimore and fed and watered and
>>> protected to see how the population would develop.  They never got above
>>> two hundred.  Infant mortality, etc., was appalling.  Carnage.  In the same
>>> space, a competent lab breeding organization could have kept a population
>>> of tens of thousands.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Don’t yell at me.  What fundamental proposition about economics do I not
>>> understand?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nick
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Nicholas Thompson
>>>
>>> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
>>>
>>> Clark University
>>>
>>> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
>>>
>>> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>> Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
>> President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
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Merle Lefkoff, Ph.D.
President, Center for Emergent Diplomacy
emergentdiplomacy.org
Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
merlelefkoff at gmail.com <merlelefoff at gmail.com>
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