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#198 — A Conversation with Paul Bloom

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The First Paradox of Quarantine

If social distancing works exactly as intended by lessening the contagion, the people who were against social distancing will feel vindicated that over reacted. That's what i referred to on twitter, is the first paradox of quarantine. How many jobs lost equals one life or one death, actually? I mean, if you knew that you could save the jobs of ten thousand people, but five people had to die. This isn't science fiction. This actuilly could be just a policy analysis. We'll see what pinantial spread looks like and what its consequences are in some places....

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