ClumsyPilot, I'm not seeing how this doesn't contravene at least these guidelines:
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.
Perhaps I did not express myself in the best way possible, but I was trying to summarise the following two points at once:
I do think that comparing emergency pandemic responce with Soviet Union as a whole is very poor taste and logically flawed.
I also wanted to point out that a lot of things happened in Soviet Union, including race mixing, so perhaps one should be careful when drawing conclusions.
Be kind. Don't be snarky. Have curious conversation; don't cross-examine. Please don't fulminate. Please don't sneer, including at the rest of the community.
Comments should get more thoughtful and substantive, not less, as a topic gets more divisive.
Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something.