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modern medical ethics. lack of efficiency is a trade off made to protect agency.

• adrianmonk 6y ago
  But the pandemic takes away a different form of agency, right? So it's not extremely clear cut ethically.
  • _jahh 6y ago
    i'm not saying "modern medical ethics" is a good thing in this case (though I think some line is obviously essential to protect the rights of the individual in the face of abuse to cure the many) but that the formal and informal accords of the medical community that constitute that system of ethics is the reason no one (except maybe an authoritarian regime with no concern for individual liberties cough xinjiang) is talking about infecting healthy people to test vaccines or build up herd immunity. this is independent of the multitude of evidence that this is bad for non-hospitalized people too https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/934851 https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/934851 https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/08/from-lung-scarring-to-heart-damage-covid-19-may-leave-lingering-marks/ https://news.berkeley.edu/2020/07/08/from-lung-scarring-to-h...