Is there some way I can donate Bitcoin to get a Mexican meth lab to shift their production to Paxlovid? Or any other action that helps get Paxlovid to people, that doesn’t require being in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industries and doesn’t assume that complying with whatever the FDA says is required?
I continue to be disappointed by people’s compliance with authority during this pandemic. The perceived dangers of noncompliance seem almost entirely imaginary to me.
I continue to be disappointed by people’s compliance with authority during this pandemic. The perceived dangers of noncompliance seem almost entirely imaginary to me.
You’re right; my statement was too broad, and there are definitely types of noncompliance whose dangers are very real. I should have said that there seem to be cases in which the dangers of noncompliance are almost entirely imaginary, and people don’t seem to be bothering to check; they notice that official policy has predictably terrible outcomes, and complain about it, but stop short of seriously considering what would happen if they just didn’t follow the policy.
The CDC’s botched test kits are the first and best example I know of. It seems to me that if the kit recipients had just used the good components they already had lying around instead of the CDC’s bad ones, and then were asked to justify what they had done, their response would have been no more blameworthy, and led to little more consequence, than “well, this kit I bought at Ikea had a busted screw, so I just used this other screw with the same threads and length that I had lying around”. That this didn’t happen makes me think that compliance for compliance’ sake was the recipients’ main motivation. I find that disappointing.
Is there some way I can donate Bitcoin to get a Mexican meth lab to shift their production to Paxlovid? Or any other action that helps get Paxlovid to people, that doesn’t require being in the pharmaceutical or healthcare industries and doesn’t assume that complying with whatever the FDA says is required?
I continue to be disappointed by people’s compliance with authority during this pandemic. The perceived dangers of noncompliance seem almost entirely imaginary to me.
In Germany you have our government stopping vaccination they believe to be illegal (https://www.ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-holstein/Nicht-zugelassener-Impfstoff-Behoerden-stoppen-Impfaktion-in-Luebeck,impfaktion178.html) even when it’s not that clear that any law got violated.
You’re right; my statement was too broad, and there are definitely types of noncompliance whose dangers are very real. I should have said that there seem to be cases in which the dangers of noncompliance are almost entirely imaginary, and people don’t seem to be bothering to check; they notice that official policy has predictably terrible outcomes, and complain about it, but stop short of seriously considering what would happen if they just didn’t follow the policy.
The CDC’s botched test kits are the first and best example I know of. It seems to me that if the kit recipients had just used the good components they already had lying around instead of the CDC’s bad ones, and then were asked to justify what they had done, their response would have been no more blameworthy, and led to little more consequence, than “well, this kit I bought at Ikea had a busted screw, so I just used this other screw with the same threads and length that I had lying around”. That this didn’t happen makes me think that compliance for compliance’ sake was the recipients’ main motivation. I find that disappointing.