COVID policy and recommendations are strongly influenced by our personal world-views, as we see in this piece. I happen to agree with Josh Barro on the trade-offs regarding COVID, but I can also see a reasonable President not wanting to encourage people to run off and mingle in airports.
Is wait-and-see really the worst policy at this p…
COVID policy and recommendations are strongly influenced by our personal world-views, as we see in this piece. I happen to agree with Josh Barro on the trade-offs regarding COVID, but I can also see a reasonable President not wanting to encourage people to run off and mingle in airports.
Is wait-and-see really the worst policy at this point? Maybe not. Is it reasonable to say that masking on transport is necessary as long as we have COVID hotspots in the country? I think so.
The government needs to publish objective guidelines for politicians to use to create and policy. We must remove COVID policy from the realm of personal hunches and into objective responses to data.
COVID policy and recommendations are strongly influenced by our personal world-views, as we see in this piece. I happen to agree with Josh Barro on the trade-offs regarding COVID, but I can also see a reasonable President not wanting to encourage people to run off and mingle in airports.
Is wait-and-see really the worst policy at this point? Maybe not. Is it reasonable to say that masking on transport is necessary as long as we have COVID hotspots in the country? I think so.
The government needs to publish objective guidelines for politicians to use to create and policy. We must remove COVID policy from the realm of personal hunches and into objective responses to data.