waiting on “herd immunity” is a depressing and fatalist viewpoint, and it’s incompatible with fairly universal humanist values—it implies it‘d be too expensive/inconvenient to protect the infinitely precious human lives in your community
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chad donkey from shrek 2 Retweeted Sanchir Jargalsaikhan (Ж.Санчир)
“human life is infinitely precious” is an interesting/problematic point of contention in abstract bioethics conversations, but it’s basically unquestionable in electoral politics the uk is learning this is the hard wayhttps://twitter.com/Sannchir/status/1239778310705446912 …
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Sanchir Jargalsaikhan (Ж.Санчир) @SannchirBetter late than never! Fingers crossed. "We were expecting herd immunity to build,” Azra Ghani, head of infectious disease epidemiology at Imperial College, told reporters Monday. “We now realize it’s not possible to cope with that.” https://www.technologyreview.com/f/615369/uk-dropping-coronavirus-herd-immunity-strategy-250000-dead/ …1 reply 0 retweets 3 likesShow this thread -
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You have to convincingly _pretend_ that human life is infinitely valuable for the plebs. But it can't be, you get into trouble straight away if you really treat it that way.https://twitter.com/mormo_music/status/1231609249224122369 …
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triage doctors know this too well
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