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Silver Adept ([personal profile] silveradept) wrote in [personal profile] sonia 2024-01-06 08:30 pm (UTC)

The more we know about what an infection does, the more we should want not to get it, and yet, there's at least one factor somewhere that's preventing the widespread adoption of "let's not get this" measures. (The easiest/most obvious one is the -ism of choice, usually racism, where people find out that the disease disproportionately affects people they want to get hurt and die, and so they're willing to sacrifice themselves and some of their fellows if they can be sure that on net, The Other gets hurt and dead more.)

It's not great continuing to manage events as if there was a pandemic going on, but that's pretty well the position I'm working from because of the potentially very bad consequences to people I want to keep healthy if I don't behave like it's still a pandemic going on.

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