It certainly seems to be optimising for blame-avoidance rather than persuasion. I don’t recall a “death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm” section in “How to win friends and influence people”.
Presumably it’s knee-jerk ass-covering and incompetence, rather than moustache-twirling villainy. Either way, hard to imagine its having a net positive impact.
It certainly seems to be optimising for blame-avoidance rather than persuasion. I don’t recall a “death for yourselves, your families, and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm” section in “How to win friends and influence people”.
Presumably it’s knee-jerk ass-covering and incompetence, rather than moustache-twirling villainy.
Either way, hard to imagine its having a net positive impact.