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RE: If we think we're going to change people's minds, we're kidding ourselves

The problem is that we often never have 100% of all the facts so you draw up a risk analysis. If I follow track A - wear masks and use hand sanitizer I spend a few dollars. I socially distance - it's not a difficult task.

OTOH, you get the virus and your mom dies, your dad dies, you die.

Even if you think the whole virus thing is BS - the "ask" is pretty damn minimal. You then look at the results in South Korea, Taiwan, Vietnam, Hong Kong, New Zealand and you say - gee maybe it's not a bad ask.

I remember this regular science teacher on Climate Change - yes we may not have 100% of the facts but you perform the risk assessment and say WHAT IF I AM WRONG? What if MMCC is real? What If MMCC is BS? Then you run the risk assessment and you say - it's probably better to proceed that it is real because the worst-case scenario is far FAR worse than if we do nothing and it turns out to be real. If it turns out to BS well we can still recover and there will still be positives.

But because a politician was warning people - then everyone on the other side immediately shuts down and assumes it's BS.



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