> Chancellor Angela Merkel is seeking to amend the Infection Protection Act so federal authorities can force coronavirus lockdowns and curfews in areas with high infection rates, even if regional leaders resist them.
As a German, I feel betrayed and deeply offended.
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Germany: Protest erupts as parliament votes on COVID rules | Coronavirus pandemic News | Al Jazeera
@0 @Br0m3x BTW, "Female-led countries handled coronavirus better, study suggests" => https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/18/female-led-countries-handled-coronavirus-better-study-jacinda-ardern-angela-merkel
@resist1984 @0 @Br0m3x "Countries sensible enough not to disregard half the population for leadership positions have better policies in the first place." The female leaders are symptoms, not the cause. The Guardian's writer overestimates the role of the leader, as any good member of the patriarchy would. ;)
@Steinar @Br0m3x @0 That is a factor, among others. https://hbr.org/2020/12/research-women-are-better-leaders-during-a-crisis
@resist1984 @Br0m3x @0 Remember such numbers will be extremely culturally biased, and making universal statements across cultures is very complicated. Countries with a culture of machissimo will score very different from countries where leaders are expected to be examples or more nursing characters. As my wife put it in regards to the pandemic, "It's not women being risk averse, it's men being risk-attracted." Which is very much a question of culture. I felt that was missing, from both sources.
@resist1984 @0 @Br0m3x My point was simply the signal is complicated, and it is easy to overemphasize gender and underemphasize culture. A woman can be a risk-attracted, irresponsible macho, but if the culture doesn't reward that enough, that woman will never be leader there. If we are talking about an arbitrary German, not Angela Merkel, then we must look at what the arbitrary German decided, and that was having Merkel as chancellor.
@resist1984 @0 @Br0m3x (As for the basic question, which gender makes for the better leaders I'd just like to add I don't protest women being better, as I'm not qualified to hold a strong opinion in the matter. Real life, though, you must choose between individuals not genders, and in humans, pretty much all individual differences are far greater than those prescribed by gender. I live in a country led by a woman, and I'm pretty sure it wasn't our female leader who's done the best job here.)
@Steinar @Br0m3x @0 Where the study is most useful is in countering the conventional wisdom myth that men are better equipped for national security, a myth that prevents female individuals from getting due consideration when the reality is more of an inversion of that. I believe women are /less/ likely to send soldiers into war, which is important for a trigger-happy country like the US.
@resist1984 @0 @Steinar maybe I'm wrong but my observation is that you @resist1984 never faced the invasive regime and it never 'touched' you. Millions of my ancestors died because they fought for freedom and now in the name of disease people want to be traced, checked etc. I tell you something, now in Russia there is more freedom than in many "free" countries. This is unbelievable. Once introduced the law stays forever. #Manning - e. law from 1917!!!
@resist1984 @0 @Steinar if someone is scarred then should stay at home. I do not want to!
And yes this disease is not so deadly to justify what is happening now.
Indeed. I lived in four continents and worked in all seven. Let's talk about #malaria. Or any of the diseases that year after year kill hundreds of thousands or millions of people but nobody gives a toss because they're all poor, ugly and living in third world countries.
If we can live with malaria we can most certainly live with this crap. As free men and women.
As el chancho said: better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees.
@Br0m3x @Steinar @0 W.r.t #covid19, it's not the government that's invasive, it's some "me-first" individuals who reject science. E.g. a shop posts "masks required", which signals to me it's a safe shop to enter. Then I get in there and someone without a mask stands next to me in line, breathing down my neck because the shop doesn't have the guts to kick people out. It's false advertizing at least.
@0 @Steinar @Br0m3x It comes down to false advertising because the shop deceives people into thinking the shop is safe by posting "masks required". A socially responsible regime takes action in this case. If I get covid in such a case, how can I sue the store for damages if I can't prove beyond reasonable doubt that an unmasked customer transmitted it to me?
@resist1984 @Steinar @0 you can say that because you never lived in communist country. You have no idea what the state can do with individuals using regulations.
@resist1984 @Steinar @0 I'll tell you one more thing, regulations always affected masses.
I travel a little. Imagine that in businesses class most people wear masks only during boarding because people from economy class are watching.:(. Then,business as usual, drinking, eating sleeping w/o masks. In economy class people yell on each other to wear mask. Do you know why SS during WWII chose jews to be kapo in concentration camps?
@resist1984 @Steinar @0 science means asking, researching, talking. Now there is only one valid narrative. This is far away from science.
Imagine, in Sweden no one breathing down my neck. People try to keep distance in the line. There is almost 0 which use masks in the stores. You can compare numbers of the death ratio since 2015 in Swedenon euromomo.eu. I'm fed up with the whole psychosis.
Nobody is accusing the federal chancellor of anything. I have great respect for Dr Merkel even if I often disagree with her policies (not to mention her party's).
But #Germany abhors centralisation and giving a single person or institution too much power, for reasons that should be abundantly clear.
That to me is a red line.
@0 @Steinar @Br0m3x Not sure about Germany, but the US demonstrates how foolish many local governments can be in pockets of right-wing communities on the fringe where anything goes even when hospitals are ram-packed. Federal govs are better informed and it's the feds who have to manage nationwide resource allocation which includes irresponsible communities.
@resist1984 @Br0m3x @0 Good point on the study being useful countering myths on job qualifications, absolutely agree there. As for women leaders being less war mongering, I think making blanket statements like that also may be a problem. Tatcher wasn't exactly the least triggerhappy European leader in recent memory... I think we should judge individuals on an individual basis, and especially when it comes to positions like leader, where there is no aggregate mass.
@resist1984 @Br0m3x @0 Fun anecdote: A Norse cultural stereotype was women being the warmongers, while the men (who would end up being the ones to do the actual fighting) were seens as more peaceful at heart.
@Steinar @0 @Br0m3x there's always individual variation, but there are also patterns that would be short-sighted to ignore. E.g. studies show that women are likely to die of a treatable heart condition because they are less likely to seek help, because they have a propensity to feel guilt over burdoning the health system. We don't ignore that study and say "individuals differ".
@0 @Br0m3x @Steinar Anyway, the point to my post was that the OP was Angela Merkel is being accused of betrayal, when in fact she came out ahead in this study. It would be a betrayal for Merkel to /not/ protect the people.