No, you’re not missing anything. This should be obviously true to anyone who’s observing. Hints of vaccine or treatment-magic-bullet just around the corner, anecdotal scary nonfatal effects, false hope of keeping sub-1% US-wide infected, etc have simply been upvoted in media for political reasons (esp. sunk cost fallacy, but it’s complicated—no lockdown leader wants to be blamed for even one death caused by their decision to relax even partially). People have taken sides for/against lockdown and are digging in (there’s also phony stuff on the open-up side—overexuberance for mostly-false-positive antibody results suggesting widespread infection so lower severity per infection).
That all matches my priors. What I was surprised by was the seeming onesidedness on LW. I’m slightly more optimistic about LWers at least trying to take all arguments on either side into account now—I half-expected this post to get downvoted into oblivion, and instead its score is mildly positive, and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5u5Het5Lkcb2nSWJp/162-benefits-of-coronavirus also exists and its score is a bit more positive.
No, you’re not missing anything. This should be obviously true to anyone who’s observing. Hints of vaccine or treatment-magic-bullet just around the corner, anecdotal scary nonfatal effects, false hope of keeping sub-1% US-wide infected, etc have simply been upvoted in media for political reasons (esp. sunk cost fallacy, but it’s complicated—no lockdown leader wants to be blamed for even one death caused by their decision to relax even partially). People have taken sides for/against lockdown and are digging in (there’s also phony stuff on the open-up side—overexuberance for mostly-false-positive antibody results suggesting widespread infection so lower severity per infection).
That all matches my priors. What I was surprised by was the seeming onesidedness on LW. I’m slightly more optimistic about LWers at least trying to take all arguments on either side into account now—I half-expected this post to get downvoted into oblivion, and instead its score is mildly positive, and https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/5u5Het5Lkcb2nSWJp/162-benefits-of-coronavirus also exists and its score is a bit more positive.