Is there anything you can do to change the situation?
I don’t have the connections to push ideas to be considered in Berlin’s policy making that I might have had 10 years ago.
Most of my effort went into high level discussion on LessWrong. More politically, I emailed Cummings in the beginning about speeding up vaccine development. I might have convinced one local politician that not taking up Winfried Stoecker on his offer was a bad idea (but that’s not a decision that’s made on the city level).
It might have been a strategic earlier to not engage with local politics earlier.
At the moment it seems like the most important switch is updating the vaccines and it’s unclear whether there’s anyone that I could talk to, to speed that up.
At the moment there’s also general reopening, so I think there would be little interest in adding additional measures such as encouraging people to talk less on public transport or providing people with easy access to fit testing.
I don’t have the connections to push ideas to be considered in Berlin’s policy making that I might have had 10 years ago.
Most of my effort went into high level discussion on LessWrong. More politically, I emailed Cummings in the beginning about speeding up vaccine development. I might have convinced one local politician that not taking up Winfried Stoecker on his offer was a bad idea (but that’s not a decision that’s made on the city level).
It might have been a strategic earlier to not engage with local politics earlier.
At the moment it seems like the most important switch is updating the vaccines and it’s unclear whether there’s anyone that I could talk to, to speed that up.
At the moment there’s also general reopening, so I think there would be little interest in adding additional measures such as encouraging people to talk less on public transport or providing people with easy access to fit testing.