1/ every few days I click over to the NYT (masochism, I guess) and they're always ranting about the anxiety and fear that "we're all" experiencing bc of the pandemic and ... I just don't get it. Why is anyone anxious or fearful? This is just an engineering problem.
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Because people can't stick to a plan.
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Because common sense isn’t so common, nor does it drives engagement metrics.
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My current metaphor: * X% of people are secretly mass shooters * And you don't notice you got hit for weeks, at which point you've *also* been a mass shooter for at least days, infecting subset of everyone around you including family. * Masks help, but it's not certain.
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"Is this person a mass shooter?" "If I go to the park, am I going to get winged by a bullet" "Am I secretly a mass shooter yet?" "Given that half of cases are asymptomatic and 40% of *them* end up with lung damage, is this shortness of breath allergies or not?"
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i'm out and about quite often, i don't see any anxious people. just cautious and polite (except, as you might imagine, teenagers - but this is evergreen). it's just an op.
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I wear a gas mask: gloves and it’s good enough to retreat to the hidden fortress. Rely on armor and you should be secure
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Because the public health officials in this country never had a consistent, underlying mechanistic framework for the guidance -- this is a *respiratory* virus that spread by *droplets* that hang in the air, especially inside, when people *talk or breathe*
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It was, instead, pop psych & amateur sociology to cover up for the lack of masks and PPE at the very beginning, which then led irretrievably to cargo cult lockdown & social distancing
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They appear to be ginning up hysteria
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Only because we are relying on everyone doing these simple things Individuals are smart and can handle simple instruction People are stupid and will frack this up
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