<story><title>Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>listenallyall</author><text>Vast simplification that undermines working-class people. Tens of millions of people have lost their job and income, while bills continue to accumulate. It&amp;#x27;s fair to acknowledge the potential risks of contracting COVID-19, and still decide, I&amp;#x27;d prefer to work, observing sanitization &amp;amp; social distancing measures, than to have my entire financial life ruined.&lt;p&gt;We just had the NFL draft this week. Plenty of these players will have their bodies seriously harmed in the next few years, while others will get multiple concussions and potentially set themselves up for CTE or other brain damage. Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn&amp;#x27;t go into this line of work...</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>There are basically three groups of people now: those who are taking this seriously and social distancing, those who think this is some kind of hoax and are gleefully ignoring any advice or orders from the government, and those that are &amp;quot;essential&amp;quot; and have no choice in the matter.&lt;p&gt;The hoaxers are a clear and present threat to the essential workers. The number of MBTA staff infected with COVID-19 has more than doubled in the past week; they &lt;i&gt;can&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; avoid people, and they&amp;#x27;re being infected by those who &lt;i&gt;won&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>jniedrauer</author><text>The social engineering aspect of pandemic control is fascinating and something I had never considered before. It&amp;#x27;s not enough to put the right policies in place. You have to get people to actually follow them (voluntarily). It&amp;#x27;s like writing a user story on a grand scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dpau</author><text>The 99% of us who are losing our jobs and eating through our savings shouldn&amp;#x27;t be forced into a moral dilemma of working to remain solvent vs. quarantine&amp;#x2F;distancing to protect others.  This is entirely a failure of government to quickly and effectively manage the pandemic with country-wide health measures as well as adequate economic support, especially for the most vulnerable.  A check for $1200 is an insult.</text></comment>
<story><title>Seattle’s leaders let scientists take the lead, New York’s did not</title><url>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/04/seattles-leaders-let-scientists-take-the-lead-new-yorks-did-not</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>listenallyall</author><text>Vast simplification that undermines working-class people. Tens of millions of people have lost their job and income, while bills continue to accumulate. It&amp;#x27;s fair to acknowledge the potential risks of contracting COVID-19, and still decide, I&amp;#x27;d prefer to work, observing sanitization &amp;amp; social distancing measures, than to have my entire financial life ruined.&lt;p&gt;We just had the NFL draft this week. Plenty of these players will have their bodies seriously harmed in the next few years, while others will get multiple concussions and potentially set themselves up for CTE or other brain damage. Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn&amp;#x27;t go into this line of work...</text></item><item><author>thomascgalvin</author><text>There are basically three groups of people now: those who are taking this seriously and social distancing, those who think this is some kind of hoax and are gleefully ignoring any advice or orders from the government, and those that are &amp;quot;essential&amp;quot; and have no choice in the matter.&lt;p&gt;The hoaxers are a clear and present threat to the essential workers. The number of MBTA staff infected with COVID-19 has more than doubled in the past week; they &lt;i&gt;can&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt; avoid people, and they&amp;#x27;re being infected by those who &lt;i&gt;won&amp;#x27;t&lt;/i&gt;.</text></item><item><author>jniedrauer</author><text>The social engineering aspect of pandemic control is fascinating and something I had never considered before. It&amp;#x27;s not enough to put the right policies in place. You have to get people to actually follow them (voluntarily). It&amp;#x27;s like writing a user story on a grand scale.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>carapace</author><text>&amp;gt; Not once did anyone raise any alarms about, maybe these young people shouldn&amp;#x27;t go into this line of work...&lt;p&gt;Maybe you&amp;#x27;re just going for rhetorical force but you are factually wrong.  Plenty of people have &amp;quot;raised alarms&amp;quot; about e.g. concussions caused by playing football.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.espn.com&amp;#x2F;nfl&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;22226487&amp;#x2F;nfl-concussions-rise-highest-level-league-began-sharing-data&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.espn.com&amp;#x2F;nfl&amp;#x2F;story&amp;#x2F;_&amp;#x2F;id&amp;#x2F;22226487&amp;#x2F;nfl-concussions...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Concussions_in_American_football&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Concussions_in_American_footba...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;And there have been consequences.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nflconcussionsettlement.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.nflconcussionsettlement.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>