Weird. "What I want" is different from "what I want to be true". I can answer the former, but not the latter. For example, I want to have less fat around my torso. But I can't say anything about whether I want it to be true *that* I have less fat around my torso.
In the context of public health ... what I want is for the public to be healthier ... e.g. less fat. (FWIW, I don't care that much about people dying ... of any particular condition from covid to guns ... but I do care that while they're alive, they be healthier. So I care more about the long-term impacts of covid infection than I do dying from covid infection.) When you ask a question like "what do you want to be true about public health", I get confused. On 4/7/21 12:14 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Please don’t over interpret. I was not calling anybody out. I was asking a > question. I “want” it to be the case that concerted community action can be > effective and that “law” plays a role is such actions. I surmise that others > “want” something else to be true, but I don’t know what that is. It’s a > feeling I get from many members of this list, Dave, EricC, Glen, Marcus, even > your honored self. Notice that in this case Dave and I are both exploring > the possibility that public health campaigns have less effect than the are > supposed to. But while such revelations make me uneasy, they seem to cause > Dave a jolt of pleasure. Now I am just reading a new note from Dave on the > other screen that suggests that I totally misunderstand him, so perhaps I > should leave off this, and look at that. > > > > I think I am not truly a complexity fan because if I were, I would see that > we never have enough information to control out fate as a community. The > foreseen consequences dwarf the foreseen ones. But doesn’t also follow the > cannot control our fates as individuals, also? And that leads to sophomoric > despair, which I also deplore. So, you see, my conversation with Dave is not > really about covid, but about life led in uncertainty. > > Still, I want to know -- NOT a rhetorical question -- why you WANT to > believe that public health measures don't work. -- ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/
