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Consider Controlled Infection (Re: Coronavirus)
- h2odragon 7y agoI have to upvote this with the hope that better educated and more eloquent persons calmly and rationally shred this argument. I'm just going on a feeling that mutation makes the idea silly; but i feel there's also a "contempt for life" counterargument to be made.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoI agree. Me too. Robin Hanson, the author..agrees that it is controversial. And he certainly has some appalling viewpoints : https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Robin_Hanson Parallel discussions in his twitter account going on now. I too would like to see arguments against his proposition.
- ignoranceprior 7y agoThere are some counterarguments here: https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/f41cdg/robin_hanson_to_control_the_coronavirus_we_should/ https://old.reddit.com/r/SneerClub/comments/f41cdg/robin_han...
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- anonsivalley652 7y agoA virus isn't a fire. And informed consent. SMDH.
- tim333 7y agoI'm not sure about doing things the way he suggests but it looks like some treatments may be effective such as remdesivir and possibly even chloroquine so you could perhaps take those and expose people to get the equivalent of a vaccination with limited risk.
- jelliclesfarm 7y agoWould it be right to say that the only situation his solution would be justified is if every single person on the planet is at the risk of being infected? It has to be air borne or in the atmosphere.
- mango7283 7y agoIt only occurred to me after reading this that with chicken pox, at least where I grew up we used to just "Get infected and done with". And apparently that concept is actually common enough to get a wiki article... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pox_party