Re:Back-of-the-envelope estimates of next quarter’s unemploy...
by omgJustTest on Monday March 30, 2020 @08:07PM
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Self-isolation reduces the risk by the largest factor, maybe up to the 99-99.5% level. Guess who cant self-isolate? Doctors.
Wearing a mask, if the entire population is infected, provides a benefit because you are surrounded by infection. Guess which person spends 8 hours a day in a highly infected population? Doctors, especially in the intensive care unit.
If you were worth as much to humanity as a doctor, as an ordinary person, your logic would save fewer lives. However it would increase your chance of being saved.
Wearing a mask, if the entire population is infected, provides a benefit because you are surrounded by infection. Guess which person spends 8 hours a day in a highly infected population? Doctors, especially in the intensive care unit.
If you were worth as much to humanity as a doctor, as an ordinary person, your logic would save fewer lives. However it would increase your chance of being saved.