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Russ Roberts: evaluation

19 Mar 2020 Conversations with Tyler Russ Roberts and Tyler on COVID-19

“I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it, as my listeners know, because it can be a ugly sinkhole of attention, of acrimony, and other things, but I think for me, and I think for you as well, based on our pre-recording conversation, it’s a huge source of information.”

— Russ Roberts

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Russ Roberts
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evaluation
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19 Mar 2020
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Conversations with Tyler

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…Yes, China, there’s been a systemic failure on this, and Trump is certainly part of it, but sort of just getting rid of Trump or criticizing Trump, I think that’s very much the wrong way to go here. We need to have accountability more generally. Yeah. Well, I’m just going to make this observation. You can comment if you want, but I find it… I love Twitter. I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with it, as my listeners know, because it can be a ugly sinkhole of attention, of acrimony, and other things, but I think for me, and I think for you as well, based on our pre-recording conversation, it’s a huge source of information. It’s where I go to find out what’s going on right now. That’s the positive side. The negative side is the number of people who are using the crisis to advance their ideological or political agenda. Of course.…

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