I’m a virologist. Public should know covid exposure dose matters. We have to conserve masks for healthcare workers, but masks can help anyone, reducing amount of virus released (even by breathing) or taken in. Immune system is more effective if infection starts w/ low dose. (1/3)
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Replying to @Plinz @PeterKolchinsky
Save the masks for health care professionals, for whom such equipment is vital. For all others, social distancing is key. As long as resources are scarce - and they won't always be - it is important to allocate those resources fairly.
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Point is, Joscha, I'm not disputing any of your basic scientific facts. I am however advocating for fairness and empathy. Things that science does not know how to measure, and which we avoid at our own peril.
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Replying to @Grady_Booch @PeterKolchinsky
I have compassion for my elderly neighbors. I have compassion for peoples' parents. I have compassion for thousands of people that will needlessly die, and their loved ones, because people in charge spread misinformation. (And you *did* dispute my basic scientific facts.)
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There is a difference between compassion and empathy. Fascism is driven by not by compassion but by empathy, by hypnotizing large groups of people into mindlessly feeling the same thing, regardless of the consequences.
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Replying to @Plinz @PeterKolchinsky
I am sad you have such a warped view regarding the nature of empathy.
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How do you define empathy, and how does it relate to it being presumptuous to think for yourself, when authorities mislead the public?
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