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Only if you're of the mindset that any risk, no matter how small, is unacceptable. > (I am talking about scientific knowledge that other knowledge can be build
by anoncake 5y ago
Only if you're of the mindset that any risk, no matter how small, is unacceptable.
> (I am talking about scientific knowledge that other knowledge can be build upon.)
This was added later. When talking purely about scientific knowledge, risk isn't a factor of course.
But we have, at times, behaved as if we had no idea if Covid would behave like literally any other coronavirus in existence. Even if we didn't strictly know that Covid had not mutated into something like HIV, it was irrational not to assume it.
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- Pyramus 5y agoLeaving aside that I don't know who is "we" and how "we have acted": A theme of the current pandemic has been that the societies/governments that had faced a coronavirus outbreak in the past, e.g. SARS in Taiwan, South Korea, China, Singapore, Hong Kong, have acted a lot more swiftly and decisively relative to most Western nations. It is hard to ignore that this approach has been more successful in terms of fatalities and economic costs (ignoring personal rights and freedoms).
- anoncake 5y agoCan we please not ignore personal rights and freedoms though?