In the podcast between Spencer Greenberg and Jacob Falkovich, Jacob makes the point that it seems like people don’t understand that COVID-19 is caused by a virus and that they [think the] way to prevent getting it is to show one’s virtue by engaging in socially approved rituals against COVID-19.
How do you deal emotionally with it?
Is there anything you can do to change the situation?
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.
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.