The combination of selfishness and denial of reality being exhibited by -a lot- of people around the coronavirus has been truly mind-boggling. It really makes me believe that this Trump era has less to do with Trump and more to do with who we've become. I hope we learn.https://twitter.com/KimZetter/status/1238536417623429120 …
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On the other hand, the onslaught of comments treating the guy like he'd just shot a school is exactly what you'd do if you wanted people to *not get tested* because once it's official that you have the virus you'll be treated like a murderer.
Well.....he is like a murderer. It's just that the impact is not immediate and he will probably not see it. And so it's easier to feel detached and think it's somehow different.
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I know everyone is worried right now, but putting people at risk is not the same as murdering people, and by acting like it's the same all you will get is a lot of people refusing to get tested by fear of being treated like murderers.
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The goal should be to get people at risk to get tested, and by letting our worst instinct for retribution take over, we'll get the exact opposite to happen.
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If you've got a social context in which doing a wrong thing and then trying to make it right (but not being able to do so completely) will increase your exclusion, people who have already done the wrong thing will just be encouraged to dig their heels in and defend it.
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A potential spark for another exponential outbreak
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