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Originally Posted by Jacks
Whataboutism, I don't care if everyone else was jumping off the bridge nor have I looked into the programs that other countries ran.
Am I wrong about CEWS and CEBA?
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It’s not whataboutism. If you think things were done wrong and believe they were done wrong from the beginning, you have to have some point of reference for what “right” looks like. Otherwise you were just complaining for the sake of complaining, and saying “Oh I was complaining from the beginning!” doesn’t mean anything to anyone.
I doubt there is a government out there that couldn’t have done a significantly better job in retrospect. So what?
As Locke said, the issue worth talking about is whether we’re doing enough today to ensure we’ve learned from those mistakes and are prepared for the next unprecedented global event and… uh… we’re not, so that’s definitely worth criticising. That’s incredibly frustrating.
But complaining about the reaction to that kind of event with zero education on what a “good” reaction theoretically looks like is pretty pointless. You might as well just get over it at that point.