Oddbean new post about login | logout We've had almost four years to learn the risks and demand more of political and corporate leaders to protect the health and wellbeing of people. Instead, after the briefest period of unevenly embracing non-pharmaceutical interventions, we decided that acting normal was more important than having normal health and lifespans.
Some will read this and think I'm being alarmist. You may be right, but a growing number of scientific studies tell me I'm not. (And, as far as I've seen, literally no studies suggest repeated COVID infections are benign.) So, we can ignore the hundreds of studies that tell us to be more cautious--that's up to you--but we can't ignore the implications of our actions in the future. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12VbMkvqUF9eSggJsdsFEjKs5x0ABxQJi5tvfzJIDd3U/edit#gid=2023681543
Be a bit more careful today, please. Don't play “disability roulette” with your life. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2023/05/26/opinion/long-covid-turns-three-americans-play-disability-roulette/