brantly
November 14, 2020, 5:45am
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sushiritto:
brantly:
Completely disagree. This is not like taking personal responsibility for not crossing against the light, or for self-directing your career, or for eating a healthy diet. Those are the types of things that affect the individual and only the individual. It would be wrong to blame others.
When it comes to public health, each individual’s actions affect outcomes for many other individuals as well as the health status of the community. That’s why it is a PUBLIC health crisis. PUBLIC health means that the health status of the many is impacted by actions of the individual. It astounds me how many times I have to repeat this to so many people.
**There is zero possible way that “individual responsibility” ALONE can tackle this virus while having a functioning community. **Community-wide measures MUST be taken. These include:
-Universal molecular testing 2-3 times/week
I have a graduate degree in public health., btw.
Did I say the individual is 100% “alone” responsible? No. You’re completely disagreeing with something I didn’t say.
You said it’s 90/10 on the UMich administration. I said the “majority,” which I define as 50%+1, is personal responsibility. Many people want to be blame the university and take ZERO responsibility. I say, not so fast, my friend.
In any case, clearly there are students (and A2 residents) who are screwing around with everyone’s health at the university (see Michigan Daily opinion piece above). Students are going home for Thanksgiving. Mine is NOT coming back to CA for Thanksgiving. And that sucks.
IMPORTANT: Coordinated, widespread public health communication program from **Federal, State and local authorities too! **
Failure is everywhere. But ultimately, it’s one’s brain making the final decision.
The individual cannot do this. All of this , which is key to containing the virus, needs to be coordinated by existing institutions: