We’ve been steering away from frontpaging Covid content on LW because it’s not timeless, but make occasional exceptions for things that seem particularly important. “Importance” is a bit of a judgment call, but this post and app seems to make a significant improvement in how people can reason about their covid safety. I know a lot of people who were defaulting to pretty strict rules because thinking about each individual case was too cognitively taxing, and having this guide is really helpful for moving into the longterm “how to reason about covid for the next year.”
I’d be interested in people continuing to sanity-check the numbers and some of the judgment calls in the microcovids.org math/science, but it looks like it’s gotten enough impromptu review for me to feel comfortable at least using it as a supplemental decisionmaking aid.
Curated.
We’ve been steering away from frontpaging Covid content on LW because it’s not timeless, but make occasional exceptions for things that seem particularly important. “Importance” is a bit of a judgment call, but this post and app seems to make a significant improvement in how people can reason about their covid safety. I know a lot of people who were defaulting to pretty strict rules because thinking about each individual case was too cognitively taxing, and having this guide is really helpful for moving into the longterm “how to reason about covid for the next year.”
I’d be interested in people continuing to sanity-check the numbers and some of the judgment calls in the microcovids.org math/science, but it looks like it’s gotten enough impromptu review for me to feel comfortable at least using it as a supplemental decisionmaking aid.