"surrender to a preventable virus": this is feeling, not thought.
More suffering and death has been caused by mistakenly believing that the U.S. was always just a few tweaks away from achieving containment. 1/2
More suffering and death has been caused by mistakenly believing that the U.S. was always just a few tweaks away from achieving containment. 1/2
It is not surprising to me that there are two extreme camps when it comes to COVID ("COVID is a Hoax" versus "Every "Transmission is a Moral Failure").
What perplexes me is that there could be scientists that feel at home in either of these two camps. 2/2
What perplexes me is that there could be scientists that feel at home in either of these two camps. 2/2
The upshot of this is that when states inevitably have pursued less extreme strategies, they have done so without the input of experts in relevant fields.
Sitting out the conversation about what will actually happen because there's some ideal we wish would happen is costly. 3/2
Sitting out the conversation about what will actually happen because there's some ideal we wish would happen is costly. 3/2
