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Realistically appraising risks, there are 3 reasons for limiting activity: 1) You're in a high-risk demographic: 70+, have health problems, lack access to high
by ethbro 6y ago
Realistically appraising risks, there are 3 reasons for limiting activity:
1) You're in a high-risk demographic: 70+, have health problems, lack access to high-level health care facilities.
2) You interact with people who are in high-risk demographics: nursing home staff, service industry where your customers are elderly, medical staff.
3) You want to support broader transmission mitigation. Mask-everwhere is the most obvious action here, but limiting high-risk activities helps too.
It's easy to forget that tragedy of the commons also means opportunity for the individual.
Some of us, despite not being in (1) or (2), feel good about doing what we individually can to avoid another broad lockdown. Decreasing R_t through personal choices is going to be a big component of the aggregate number.
- guscost 6y agoMy honest reaction to this is fury, but let me instead only say that we do not agree about what is best for the commons, and I will never allow you to coerce me into going along with your plan.
- nkozyra 6y agoI read the parent comment like four times and did not see any hint of coercion. It is expressed as a personal approach.
- guscost 6y agoJust being candid, in case anyone is under the delusion that it might be worth trying.
- ethbro 6y agoMy personal decisions require neither your cooperation nor consent. I do what I do to mitigate the spread, not because I expect you to do the same, but because it's what I feel is right. Let no man pull you low enough to hate him.
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