Please read Gigi's piece at The Conversation. Twitter is a mob, and the mob has a new enemy. Professor Gigi Foster has been on a few television shows lately trying to make the case that economic lockdowns cost lives, just as COVID does, and therefore we want to make sure that we aren’t inadvertently killing more people over the long-term by crushing economic activity and livelihoods.
I realise this is an old post of yours, but your recent tweet drew me to it. I have subscribed to FET because I enjoy your ‘fresh’ thinking. However, where Covid is concerned, there are other ‘ fresh’ thinkers who have different views to yours, such as https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathogens-coronavirus-a-note .
I think the difference is that they misunderstood the type of problem faced. They think it is a "risk of ruin" problem. It is not. Infection fatality rates etc were well established by then. We have the Princess cruise ship and many other cases that showed nothing out of the ordinary compared to other respiratory viruses.
I realise this is an old post of yours, but your recent tweet drew me to it. I have subscribed to FET because I enjoy your ‘fresh’ thinking. However, where Covid is concerned, there are other ‘ fresh’ thinkers who have different views to yours, such as https://necsi.edu/systemic-risk-of-pandemic-via-novel-pathogens-coronavirus-a-note .
Would you care to “compare and contrast”?
Thanks
I think the difference is that they misunderstood the type of problem faced. They think it is a "risk of ruin" problem. It is not. Infection fatality rates etc were well established by then. We have the Princess cruise ship and many other cases that showed nothing out of the ordinary compared to other respiratory viruses.