Is there any evidence that introducing and aggressively enforcing COVID19 measures that have little-to-no impact on disease spread results in an indirect change to other behaviours that do?https://twitter.com/CrabbBrendan/status/1415450549625843716 …
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Ketan Joshi Retweeted zeynep tufekci
The fundamental problem with a lot of this stuff is perfectly expressed by
@zeynep herehttps://twitter.com/zeynep/status/1380231086836432896 …Ketan Joshi added,
zeynep tufekciVerified account @zeynepToo often, a call for nuance and epistemic humility is conflated with inaction & decision paralysis, leading to the "signal overboost" noted above. Ideal world: perfectly possible to state limits of certainty while advocating for real action within the context of trade-offs.Show this thread2 replies 1 retweet 12 likesShow this thread
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Even putting aside all the other problems with it, I just don't see how the "over-message" strategy works for the stated goal. When we do try to warn about a real threat (say, about Delta two months ago), it gets lost in the noise.
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