Epidemiologists cannot know the specific actions of each individual in a community. This kind of knowledge is not knowable to any scientist. The top mistake being made by state governments is their imposing uniform rules that limit the use of local knowledge to fight the virus.
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Replying to @justinamash
Physicists don't know the position and momentum of every atom in the universe but they are still able to derive some remarkably precise predictions about what happens to matter when you add energy to a particular system. Their models include the relevant information.
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Replying to @generativist @justinamash
Epidemiologists study and model the epidemics. Their models include the relevant information. (Including human behavior and economic considerations.)
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Replying to @generativist @justinamash
Certainly, I can be sympathetic to local knowledge problems. But "there is one and only one social responsibility of business -- to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profits so long as it stays within the rules of the game," right?
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Replying to @generativist @justinamash
Safety isn't necessarily a term in the not-so-heterogeneous objective function you claim integrates it (less so if there is a coronavirus business liability immunity legislation.) The "uniform rules" make it part of the game and non-uniform rules can't contain contagion.
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If you want to argue that the cost of containing the virus is too high, given your particular values, cool — do that! People may agree — I don't know. But your making the claim that people can have their cake and eat it, too, which is a very different one.
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