energyandstruct
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It ain't ebola, but the combination of infectivity and mortality rate makes it particularly nasty. even if it had the mortality rate of flu, which it doesnt, the infectivity being higher makes it worse. It's easy to catch just from areosolized particles floating in air in public places without ever being in close contact with someone elseI don't say it's fine because of "the establishment." I just haven't seen anything resembling anything near good science to suggest that it's anything more than a common cold virus, which is what the Corona family of viruses help cause. Also, as I've said numerous times, people getting sick and dying, supposedly due only to COVID 19, can be explained through well known and existing diseases and conditions. Besides all of that, there is nothing to justify the overreaction especially of governments and the media.
as for media "overreaction", as taleb points out what looks like overreaction in terms of pandemic preparedness is sound because the risks are hard to predict and way worse than the consequences of overreaction. I can't actually think of anything that terrible about a quarantine besides people being inside toxic buildings, which is not necessary in many quarantines (in some people can still go to parks and stuff). it shuts down the fake financialized economy, who cares. let the stock market crash, seriously who cares. it makes lines on a graph go down. again, who cares.
so, even if we did overreact which is the opposite of whats happened (we were way underprepared compared to east asian countries), we would face less harm than the worst case scenarios of underreacting