June 28, 2021

A Meadhouse dialogue.

MEADE:  “So, do you think the pandemic is over?”

ALTHOUSE pauses.

MEADE: “You have to answer yes or no.”

ALTHOUSE, after another pause: “Not entirely. No.”

MEADE, immediately: “You’re a Democrat.”

Posted by Ann Althouse at 7:00 PM
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3 comments:

Ann Althouse said...

Temujin writes:

"Yes, polls are polls and we all know they can be arranged to achieve a certain readout but this is pretty clear: https://www.mediaite.com/news/the-pandemic-is-over-says-57-percent-of-republicans-and-4-percent-of-democrats/. My wife has the same answer as you."

I think that's what Meade was looking at when he formulated his little test.

6/28/21, 8:35 PM
Ann Althouse said...

Assistant village Idiot writes:

Even though the Republican-Democrat numbers are dramatic, I am going to bet there are still demographic differences according to age.

Also, it would be more solidly logical to apply his rule mostly in reverse. Plenty of Republicans think there is still some pandemic to go, but very few Democrats believe there isn't.

6/28/21, 8:36 PM
Ann Althouse said...

chickelit writes: "Meade is just echoing the pandemic anagram “dempanic.”"

Cute, but acknowledging that the pandemic isn't over yet isn't panicking. It all depends on what you do about it. And how you define "pandemic." Or, I guess, how you define "panic."

There's a meta-panic going on, I'd say. People winding each other up about whether things are more serious or less serious and what to do about it and who's being an idiot or who doesn't care about which other people. I'm not participating in any of that, though I did say back at the very beginning, when we didn't know the actual numbers, that the worse case scenario looked like 11 million Americans dying. That was just cold hard math applied to numbers that were out there in the estimates.

6/29/21, 8:53 AM

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