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Over the years I've often met two personality types. One is of the let’s try this and see what happens mentality. They dive in & learn on the job. If it goes wrong, well so be it. At least we tried. Such types end up entrepreneurs, explorers, inventors, artists, speculators etc/
Then a much more cautious, risk-averse type, who tells you why you can’t do something rather than why you can. They seek permission not forgiveness. These types often end up in structured careers with clear parameters- civil servants, employees, solicitors, accountants etc /
I guess in a successfully functioning society you want a healthy balance of the two. One to push boundaries and the other to reign them in/
What concerns me with COVID is that power & decision-making has fallen into the hands of this risk-averse, health & safety mindset, that we dare not do anything. National destiny determined by people whose first instinct is to find reasons why you can't do sthg, not why you can /
This is so even though COVID is not yet fully understood, and the efficacy of certain measures - masks, lockdown etc disputed..
One set of data - Covid deaths and infections - is scrutinised. The other, immeasurable data set which is the cost of locking down, goes ignored. /
One set of data - Covid deaths and infections - is scrutinised. The other, immeasurable data set which is the cost of locking down, goes ignored. /
It's pure Bastiat. Not just the cost to businesses and the economy, & all those whose livelihoods have been ruined, but the cost of having lives, relationships, experiences taken away, to kids for example of having their school or university years taken from them.
I'm not an epidemiologist, nor part of the new amateur expert class, but I can still see notice there are many who have either had COVID or are unharmed by it, who are paying a price they should not have to pay. Collectivism is supposed to be for the greater good
It is not even clear this safety-first approach is even working to stop the spread of the disease. At a certain point a let's do it approach must take over for the sake of national sanity. Otherwise the cure will be (already is?) more harmful than the disease itself. /
