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What's the best thing to read on public sector desensitisation? Professionals working with the most chaotic parts of society gradually slipping into extreme doomerism because all they see is impulsivity and disease, and coming to think everyone is like that
Seems like these "unconscious biases" were a big factor in the UK's herd immunity by infection plan - if you see the public as chaotic, hostile and irresponsible, it's easy to think that you have no chance of controlling a pandemic if it means relying on them
Public sector workers disproportionately deal with "frequent flyers" who have lots of problems in different domains, which is possibly why they were surprised by millions of people independently taking measures against the pandemic before any lockdown
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505663/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5505663/
Interestingly, that cohort study was conducted in New Zealand, which succeeded in eliminating covid and is now mostly back to normal. So even with this difficult to reach minority, they still managed it!
On 13th March, when SAGE members were in the media saying the battle was lost and the only way forward to was to manage the mass infection of the population with the virus, Londoners had already reduced their journeys by 25% - without any state support https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/1238573667002523648?s=09
The panel in this doc sound incredibly confident that the public are hopeless, and will panic and riot rather than protect themselves - a nice bit of evidence for elite radicalisation theory https://twitter.com/MWStory/status/1344581605692755968
