I don't agree with the post, but it wasn't utterly unreasonable, or strongly impolite or abusive.
I disagree. It is unreasonable even though it appears "reasonable" because a fair sized minority of people in this country believe it is reasonable (see the quote below from the Der Spiegel article). If it had been just one or two posts, then fair enough, Glenn was being hasty. But it wasn't just one or two posts, it was many posts and, as Glenn noted, he was being polemical in most of his posts, even if "subtlely" so.
Eleven weeks after the lockdown was imposed on Wuhan, Wang Xinghuan, the director of one of the largest hospitals in the city, was standing outside his clinic in a tracksuit and speaking of the lessons he had learned from the crisis. "Three things are essential," he said, "rigorous testing, the immediate isolation of suspected cases and the wearing of masks." He said that he was in regular contact with colleagues in New York and that one of them had told him that the wearing of masks was unfortunately a cultural issue. "But it isn't a cultural issue," Wang insisted. "It's stupid to not wear a mask." |
