Most advice here seems to be of the form “here’s a thing that has a benefit” or “here’s a thing that has a benefit, and the cost is low”. But without an estimate of the relative magnitudes of the costs and benefits, it’s hard to know whether taking the advice is worth it. I wish that more advice included this type of cost-benefit analysis, perhaps with a parameter of how bad things are so that one could say, for example, “it’s worth it to do this thing if you think X proportion of your city will eventually be infected”.
Most advice here seems to be of the form “here’s a thing that has a benefit” or “here’s a thing that has a benefit, and the cost is low”. But without an estimate of the relative magnitudes of the costs and benefits, it’s hard to know whether taking the advice is worth it. I wish that more advice included this type of cost-benefit analysis, perhaps with a parameter of how bad things are so that one could say, for example, “it’s worth it to do this thing if you think X proportion of your city will eventually be infected”.