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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There's been enough documented epidemics in world history that we don't have to guess what drives people away from being diagnosed. Seeing how the diagnosed ones are treated is one of those factors.
That sounds extremely hard to quantify and prove: The net effect of dissuading the anti-social behavior vs the allowing that anti-social behavior to continue unchecked by social shaming. I mean...is there really some meta study that actually proves this?
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The issue is that you think you're "dissuading bad behavior" by shaming the guy after he did something bad, with people calling for him to be imprisoned. But the reality is that shaming selfish people don't stop doing them doing selfish things, it just makes them hide it.
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(That's most obvious in behavioral economics studies.) Meanwhile, the people who would not have done the selfish behavior, seeing social shunning, are also pushed to not get diagnosed.
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