This frightening outbreak highlights one of the most important challenges for the cheap, rapid testing approach that @michaelmina_lab and others have proposed: creating a false sense of security that causes people to violate other guidelines, putting themselves and others at risk
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lots and lots of human beings act like this! the Notre Dame president isn't "determine[d] to create a catastrophic situation," etc. surely we can acknowledge the risk here while also saying the White House was wildly irresponsible - both can be true!
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if the models don’t account for stupidity as well as ideology they aren’t very useful (see the example of University of Illinois too)
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It's certainly clear that massive testing needs to come arm in arm with a massive education campaign. Neither the testing nor the education need to be perfect, they need to be massive.
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Don't disagree. I'm always for informing people as straightforwardly and honestly as possible, including shortcomings etc. of any tool.
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