And I'm not even sure that DOESN'T make sense! Risk mitigation has been a really important strategy for me this last year and change—understanding that you'll have to do some risky things, and want to do others, but that if you do fewer of them, your risk is lower.
https://twitter.com/whstancil/status/1392508087987146753
A big lesson for me over the last year has been that "is this constellation of activities safe for me medically" and "is this constellation of activities sustainable for me psychologically" are deeply entwined questions.
This is something that safer sex advocates have known for decades, of course—that the choices we make about how to keep safe have to be informed by our deeper wants and needs, or they're not going to stick.
Nobody ever answers these questions in a purely rational way, not least because we don't have access to the data we'd need to do so—managing ambiguity is ITSELF an organic, psychologically-inflected process, not a data-driven algorithm.
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