I feel like i have helped people, but at the same time, it is a very different amount of responsibility than i have had before to other people's health and wellness. I knew that when i wrote that schools were not superspreaders, like, people would be upset about it. Maybe i did't know how upset they would be. But, like, i kind of understood that that was a controversial possition when i wrote the thing about the unvaccinated kids in the spring. You just gotlike, totally and then there were many people who were like, this is wrong. The analogy, it's the analogy exactly tat that's nt a good analogy. And so
Emily Oster is an economist, professor, and author. Her new book is The Family Firm.
”[COVID] has been 18 months of being a person who is slightly more public, who is saying things that are somewhat more controversial, where people yell at me a lot. ... I do much less reading of the comments than I did early on because I found that eventually I just got mad and that's not a productive way to interact. And it affects how I think about what I write, and I would like what I write to be the things that I think are true, not the things I think will avoid people being angry.”
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