Now here's some cutting edge public health policy that should be replicated substantially everywhere: https://www.asahi.com/articles/ASN4T73QWN4SUTIL045.html?ref=tw_asahi-tokyo … If you're sent home with coronavirus and suggested to self-isolate for two weeks, you get a care package with everything you'll need for two weeks.
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The people being sent home have mild symptoms, and the desired action from a public health perspective is that they feel supported and safe and *stay inside.* Having a ready supply of TV dinners, etc, means they don't have to pop out on day 4 to the supermarket to get food.
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A related thing that would be trivial to implement but has a much much higher institutional barrier: Arrange for everyone to get a check in call twice a day with a non-medical professional. Simple "Hey Tanaka-san, how are you doing? Feeling well? We're all rooting for you."
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One of the purposes of that call is moral support. Another purpose is that the non-medical professional should Big Red Button and get actual medical professionals involved if Tanaka-san is obviously in distress. It's that second part which makes it institutionally difficult.
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"Seems sort of risky to have non-medical professionals doing disease diagnosis. That's both illegal and runs the risk of false negatives, and then we're *responsible.* So instead we'll do nothing."
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Replying to @patio11
Have you seen
@jaiwithani 's "The Copenhagen Interpretation of Ethics"? Applies doubly to medical ethics.https://blog.jaibot.com/the-copenhagen-interpretation-of-ethics/ …1 reply 0 retweets 9 likes
I am sadly extremely familiar both with the essay and with the phenomenon.
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