I think the farhad column is useful in that it shows that people are perfectly capable of making the “wrong” (honestly he seems pretty low on the risk spectrum for gatherings) decision even if they have all the relevant information, financial security etc
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Replying to @MattZeitlin
This is piggybacking off a
@mattyglesias point but I think it shows the problem is that a lot of COVID behavior which may be rational from an individual's standpoint can nonetheless cause negative externalities for society.22 replies 17 retweets 479 likes -
I'd put "indoor dining" in that category, but wouldn't put "self-isolating for two weeks and then driving to a city to eat an outdoor meal with seven people" in that category. The latter is actually literally harmless.
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Replying to @davidshor @NateSilver538 and
That was not at all what the first version of the column was though. It’s been majorly-edited. The first version was I don’t have a bubble but I had no idea, and the only precaution was kids will be pulled from learning pod for a week.
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Replying to @zeynep @davidshor and
I don’t mind people doing low risk activities as they see fit, of course. Issue was very publicly shrugging off something that is very important for people to understand: bubbles aren’t bubbles unless they’re *actually* bubbles. Few people have intuitive grasp of network theory.
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They changed some details? Yikes. Isolating for two weeks in advance? It was one week when I read it. And I don't recall any mention of the meal being outdoors.
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right didn't say this before, for example: "will all probably quarantine for a couple of weeks after we return." Side note: anyone have a clue why
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I don't know and I'm actually glad they edited it. It makes it harder to understand why people got mad in the first place but that's not important. If anyone encounters it now, it is less bad though it is still incoherent. (No way to salvage that).
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