This from @zeynep is good on some of the messaging challenges around COVID. Everyone was so concerned with trying to debunk the notion that COVID would just "go away" in warmer weather that they downplayed evidence of reasonably strong seasonal effects…https://zeynep.substack.com/p/balancing-epistemic-humility-and …
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Replying to @NateSilver538 @zeynep
Even now, there is such paranoia about outdoor spaces that people are cutting themselves off from the only ways to fend off the mental health effects of distancing measures.
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Replying to @cschneider8224 @NateSilver538
Indeed. For months, there have been fights in my local online groups over unmasked people briefly passing by others in our uncrowded trails. Sure, pull your mask up to be polite, but the amount of consternation over a fleeting moment outdoors—still from a distance—is misguided.
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