I know firsthand, from meeting my father’s surgeon, that when you’re in a life-or-death situation, the trappings of authority are *very* psychologically compelling and it’s hard to ask tough questions of the guy in the white coat. “This is standard.” “Oh ok.”
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(Plus it’s good for public health! Keeps sick people from infecting others!)
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Immune function affects how well you recover from *a lot* of diseases; and it responds to stress. “Be nice to sick people and make their lives easier” is not pseudoscience; it makes a measurable difference.
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Obligatory topical tie-in: hospitals are gonna be overwhelmed with COVID19. Some people who get the disease need specialized equipment you can only get in an ICU to survive. Far more people are just gonna be, y’know, sick. Laid up, contagious, unable to get much done.
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We have *terrible* infrastructure as a society for dealing with “a lot of people need to rest up.” They’ll be clogging hospitals, they’ll be trying to push through and go to work, etc.
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It’s a measure of how good or bad we are at translating wealth into leisure, to see how well or poorly we can adapt to “lots of people are sick in bed.”
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