Bringing Sanity to the Omicron Chaos

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Cannot bring Delta-thinking to Omicron. the spread is too different

homicide risk among kids at all ages is greater than covid risk. it’s not a zero-risk, but it’s on par with other things that we don’t halt their life for.

Anxiety - “capital A anxiety” is when anxiety takes on a life of its own, particularly as detached from reality or the facts. When feeling Anxiety, it’s important to interrogate whether or not the feeling is attached to the facts.

Covid problems are beauracracy problems. wearing a cloth mask on the way to a table at a restaurant - this is to not cause a scene and also because the host doesn’t even necessarily want to enforce it, but must. how to get rid of these ghost structures that nobody wants. cognitive dissonance. covid theater.

The entire population is trying to learn about relative risk, cognitive dissonance, bias reduction, etc. hard!