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Nobody is invulnerable to anything. But we should never make generalized/universal policies to the detriment of the masses motivated by long-tail extremes. Just because we don't know how to reliably measure the (real and large) impact of mitigations, doesn't mean we can/should pretent that impact doesn't exist. It's all about tradeoffs. And I'm tired of emotional heart-strings cases that are "easy" to measure stamping out all the real effects of mitigations that are "hard" to measure. And I've also heard way too much about, "but if we could have responded effectively/quickly like China/Vietnam/New Zealand then we wouldn't have been _forced_ to do these other damaging mitigations" - that is a theoretical idea/world that we don't live in. Given the actual situation - that we live in a country with free-spirited/selfish people with pretty significant individual liberties, how should we address the virus? That is the real question.


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