{"id":10216,"date":"2020-10-19T13:21:58","date_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10216"},"modified":"2020-10-19T13:21:58","modified_gmt":"2020-10-19T17:21:58","slug":"listening-to-scientists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10216","title":{"rendered":"Listening to scientists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since when is listening to the scientists a bad thing?<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-left: 1.5in;\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Trump complains if Biden is elected, \u201cHe\u2019ll listen to the scientists.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wait. Is that a bad thing?<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YIqHER6SJW\">pic.twitter.com\/YIqHER6SJW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/keithboykin\/status\/1318175130145751040?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 19, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Now as to the claim that if he listened to the scientists, he&#8217;d have tanked the economy&#8230; here is what Mr. Trump&#8217;s pandemic response accomplished with respect to the US economy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/united-states\/gdp-growth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10217\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/united-states-gdp-growth-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/united-states-gdp-growth-2020.png 730w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/united-states-gdp-growth-2020-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Compare this against China, where the totalitarian government, to their credit, actually listened to the scientists:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/china\/gdp-growth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10218\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/china-gdp-growth-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/china-gdp-growth-2020.png 730w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/china-gdp-growth-2020-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even Canada, with a much less spectacular pre-pandemic economic performance than the United States, fared much better than our southern neighbor on which much of our economy depends:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tradingeconomics.com\/canada\/gdp-growth\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10219\" src=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/canada-gdp-growth-2020.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"730\" height=\"340\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/canada-gdp-growth-2020.png 730w, https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/canada-gdp-growth-2020-300x140.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 730px) 100vw, 730px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So I suppose, Mr. Trump, you just gave millions of thinking Americans another reason to vote for Mr. Biden. I&#8217;d laugh but&#8230; neither the state of the US economy nor the number of dead, rapidly approaching a quarter million, qualify as laughing matter. Not to mention the seemingly inevitable march towards an increasingly illiberal, increasingly authoritarian America, driven by structural causes that go back decades and which a Biden Administration is just as unlikely to address as preceding administrations.<\/p>\n<fb:like href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10216' send='false' layout='button_count' show_faces='true' width='450' height='65' action='like' colorscheme='light' font='lucida grande'><\/fb:like>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since when is listening to the scientists a bad thing? Trump complains if Biden is elected, \u201cHe\u2019ll listen to the scientists.\u201d Wait. Is that a bad thing?pic.twitter.com\/YIqHER6SJW &mdash; Keith Boykin (@keithboykin) October 19, 2020 Now as to the claim that if he listened to the scientists, he&#8217;d have tanked the economy&#8230; here is what Mr. <a href='https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/?p=10216' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29,5,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","category-politics","category-science","category-29-id","category-5-id","category-48-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10216"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10229,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10216\/revisions\/10229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spinor.info\/weblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}