I'm feeling frustrated with covid discourse these days. I think it's easy to conflate three distinct things:
1) Truth: what do interventions do?
2) Individual values: what interventions are worth it for me?
3) Community values: what interventions are worth imposing on others?
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I have some disagreements here, but I think they boil down to a valuation of how #3 effects #2 in all the outliers who do not judge themselves to be safe to catch it.
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I do think your categorization is very apt and has been sorely absent from a lot of discourse.
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I think some disagreement is fair!
The thrust of the argument is that there's not much sign of improvement at this point, so we probably have to accept some increased individual risk (or greater demands for individual caution) for vulnerable people. :-(
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I wish things had gone differently: definitely a loss for Team Humanity. I desperately hope that we can do better next time.
I'd be on board with keeping some community interventions in place if we were doing a better job of scaling therapeutics (e.g., Paxlovid, monoclonal antiboides). But... as far as I can tell those will remain in short supply for at least another year.
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