Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with both nuanced information and collective action problems.
I see lots of commentators arguing about 'lockdowns', but very little discussion what actually constitutes 'lockdowns'. Lockdowns in China looked very different to lockdowns in Europa or lockdowns in the US. Lockdowns in 2020, in most countries, were very different to lockdowns in 2022.
> Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with both nuanced information and collective action problems.
There is a point to be made that the number of collective action problems has increased, relative to one or two generations ago, and will further increase.
I'm not sure why I'm supposed to care about this distinction when they've all proven to be completely ineffective can-kicking at best, enormously costly interventions whose scope was extended well beyond their initial "15 days to slow the spread" mandate for precious little (if any) benefit and an accumulating roster of harms.
Pragmatism is apparently a forbidden concept in 2022.
Covid deaths per 100k population
USA 311.7
New Zealand 40.27
Source: https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/mortality
This is what happens when you "can-kick" infections after vaccination (actually, not even after vaccination but after offering vaccines to the population - and a lot of them stupidly refusing them).
As I said:
>Humanity is really (mostly) unfit to deal with ... nuanced information
Why are there people with hammer and sickle in their handles suddenly claiming expertise and calling researchers nazis ?