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Unusually political for HN, surprised this hasn't been modded away already. My uninformed prediction for blue urban areas: by July, 90% of businesses will let
by titanomachy 6y ago
Unusually political for HN, surprised this hasn't been modded away already.
My uninformed prediction for blue urban areas: by July, 90% of businesses will let unmasked people in. The number of people wearing masks outside will drop to 30%, but not lower than that for a long time.
- batch12 6y agoLooks like between your comment and mine, it's been axed.
- Clewza313 6y agoI shared this because although Philip's opinions don't fit the standard HN/liberal ethos (or, for that matter, the standard Republican/antivax/"muh freedom" ethos either) he makes some interesting points and buttresses them with evidence. One thing I find particularly worrisome is that our current strategy of "lockdown and vaccinate until COVID disappears" is predicated on COVID disappearing. What if it doesn't, and the virus continues to win the arms race, as it's clearly doing in India right now? We need to have a rational, science-based discussion on what level of disruption (from lockdowns, travel bans etc) and deaths (from COVID) we as society can live with, but I'm not really seeing that happening.