Insights on Tracing versus Vaccines

We have a lot of self-appointed experts who are medical professionals but like many of us lack an understanding of their limits. As a doctor you think about the individual but in pandemic epidemiology it's very different. Of all the perspectives I've seen Michael Mina speaks really clearly on it. I found Dr Mina was on the pivot podcast and shared the dangers of all the vaccine optimism; why we need to stay disciplined and increasing our testing and tracing; finally why other non-epidemic health professionals perspectives aren't helpful.

There's so much conflicting information that doesn't strike me as anti-vax or just bad faith, some people are well-intentioned but a pandemic has different rules and requires a different mentality.

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Bad Behaviour and Tough Talks

It's back to school kids! read : Good News about Bad Behaviour by Katherine Reynolds Lewis I randomly came across this book at the library and picked it up ironically. Soon afterwards I was hooked. The book speaks to the underlying cause of kids acting out. Sometimes it's bad modelling or connection with parents. Often it can be just low expectations yielding minimal output. The book advocates we relinquish control in ordrer to let our kids reach their potential and unlock their own sense of agency. One of my favourite lines is "By doing things for children that they're able to do, we are robbing them of feeling capable." I know for me doing things the kids are capable of is an expediency thing, but if they never learn. quick : We are ruining childhood - Kim Brooks likens childhood to one long internship just to get into the middle class. Overscheduling, no free time let alone free play. The idea of safety-ism means parents are trying to eliminate any and a...

just let them play??

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Resulting

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Recency Bias

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