2026-05-12 11:52 UTC
@croissant@zeroes.ca @tshirtman@mas.to
"I've always interpreted the idea that we should take 'precautions' as being cautious about doing literally anything to prevent disease until it's already killed tens of thousands of people." - most public health people in 2026
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@tshirtman@mas.to 2026-05-12 12:46
@johnzajac@dice.camp @croissant@zeroes.ca i also really fear the wrong lessons were taken out of covid, public policy has been seen as a catastrophic failure, both enormously costly on the economy (we still pay the price to this day), ineffective at solving it (i still think lockdowns saved a lot of people, buying precious time and allowing the system to handle the load better, but in the end the resolution was "giving up"), and also it was so costly politically, that they don't want to go through that again.