4. unquestionably a huge L overall (hundreds of thousands, probably millions of children starved YPLL/death >150x covid)
5. not even remotely egalitarian in practice even within the rich world itself
6. probably almost entirely useless (health-wise at least) even for rich people in the rich world
It's got all the usual huge Ls that communism always has and it happened here.
Communism is just another garbage form of authoritarianism but it's more seductive than most and is obviously something that reasonable people should be concerned about and oppose at home (no crazy opposition to China required).
But the covid response was:
1. essentially and often explicitly communistic
2. Hideously authoritarian
3. astonishingly popular
4. unquestionably a huge L overall (hundreds of thousands, probably millions of children starved YPLL/death >150x covid)
5. not even remotely egalitarian in practice even within the rich world itself
6. probably almost entirely useless (health-wise at least) even for rich people in the rich world
It's got all the usual huge Ls that communism always has and it happened here.
Communism is just another garbage form of authoritarianism but it's more seductive than most and is obviously something that reasonable people should be concerned about and oppose at home (no crazy opposition to China required).