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I'd like to believe that the scientific and medical authorities who are being consulted by local and state leadership have done exactly that calculation... and
by munificent 6y ago
I'd like to believe that the scientific and medical authorities who are being consulted by local and state leadership have done exactly that calculation... and that result was states mandating that these businesses be shut down.
Why do randos think they understand the threat model better than the CDC and state medical authorities?
- wittyreference 6y ago> Why do randos think they understand the threat model better than the CDC and state medical authorities? This is HN. We get a post on at least a weekly basis to the effect of: medications shouldn’t require prescriptions, anyone with an internet connection and a couple brain cells can manage their own care. HN: home of “no one in management can possibly understand the technical complexity of software” and “who needs doctors, obviously I can easily understand that other enormous technical field.”
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- Enginerrrd 6y agoYou are conflating multiple issues here. One, OP's question was about the threat model of underground-gym-goers not the CDC and state/local medical authorities. Two, public health authorities don't do "exactly that calculation" because they are looking at interventions on the population level. Their job is to mandate things that would be individually irrational for the collective good. They have their own calculus about what the acceptable trade-offs are, that I'd suspect ultimately relates to the same monetary value of a human life that FEMA uses, but I'm not sure. I generally trust them to do their job correctly though.