basquebromance
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- Nov 26, 2015
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Tapper was brutally direct in his question to Polis, who lifted his state’s stay-at-home order, in favor of a reopening of business. Are you worried that a premature move could “cost your constituents their lives?”
Polis was blandly indirect in his answer. While he might wish to have “next week’s information and next month’s information available to me today,” he said, “that’s not the world we live in.” he’s looking for a path forward in “an ongoing sustainable way,” one that takes into account citizens’ interests “psychologically, economically, and from a health perspective.”
The murkiness of Polis’ reply requires translation. To my ear, he was saying something like this: Yes, some people are going to die of Covid-19 who wouldn’t if I keep a full lockdown in place. I hope not too many or too fast. But keeping the risk of death as low as possible imposes other costs that are too high, and my job is to balance competing goals
Polis was blandly indirect in his answer. While he might wish to have “next week’s information and next month’s information available to me today,” he said, “that’s not the world we live in.” he’s looking for a path forward in “an ongoing sustainable way,” one that takes into account citizens’ interests “psychologically, economically, and from a health perspective.”
The murkiness of Polis’ reply requires translation. To my ear, he was saying something like this: Yes, some people are going to die of Covid-19 who wouldn’t if I keep a full lockdown in place. I hope not too many or too fast. But keeping the risk of death as low as possible imposes other costs that are too high, and my job is to balance competing goals