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Yeah pretty much. Especially in the US we've oriented mostly in minimizing economic damage. Which is valid I guess, but we also need to acknowledge that other optimizations are possible. Different choices don't need to be based on different information available, just different values and desired/acceptable outcomes.

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We're optimizing to short-term economic damage. I suspect if COVID rolls through a dozen times, and gives just a few percent of the population brain fog on each pass, the long-term economic damage will be astronomical.

Agreed but I was trying to keep it as neutral as possible in that one.

If this is really the mass disabling event I suspect it is, and given the way it has expressed along the lines of inequality that already exist, and how healthcare is tied to employment... and we really only accept "personal responsibility" as the cause of all hardship....

Prob gonna get real eugenicsy over here the next 5-10 years. I pray that I'm wrong I truly do.

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