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Government by hysteria

Tuesday, March 24, 2020 12:49

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Government by hysteria was Mrs H’s phrase after the Boris lockdown broadcast. Here in the UK and elsewhere, public hysteria it is where many political boundaries come from. Government activity is promoted or constrained by media hysteria rather than hard-nosed analysis.

It is not only the mainstream media but celebrities, pundits and social media all committed to government by hysteria as a way of bypassing the hard slog of actually analysing such matters pragmatically. A way of bypassing ordinary voters too.

Boris had no real choice in the coronavirus policies he has followed to date, even though they may make us worse off than we need have been. If he hadn’t taken this drastic measure, he risked a storm of hysterical denunciation which even a benign outcome would have done little to mitigate. He had to do it whatever the risk of a genuinely disastrous outcome, even if it is minute.

A second possibility is that his scientific advisers now expect the situation to become noticeably more benign over the next few weeks, in which case the government needs to take the credit for tough action whatever the actual cause.

The second possibility seems unlikely at the moment – hysteria avoidance is the more likely motive. This is how things are done now.

Source: https://akhaart.blogspot.com/2020/03/government-by-hysteria.html

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