There’s always more news than we have time to explore, and this nugget from mid-April escaped us. Dr. Anthony Fauci was being interviewed, and the subject of hook-up sex and COVID-19 came up. He said some interesting things about tolerance for risk.
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Toward the end of the taped segment, Fauci was asked: “If you’re swiping on a dating app like Tinder, or Bumble or Grindr, and you match with someone that you think is hot, and you’re just kind of like, ‘Maybe it’s fine if this one stranger comes over.’ What do you say to that person?”
“You know, that’s tough,” replied the befuddled National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases director to the curveball. “Because that’s what’s called relative risk.”
He goes on to say, “If you’re willing to take a risk — and you know, everybody has their own tolerance for risks — you could figure out if you want to meet somebody.”
If you choose to it is okay to meet somebody for hook up sex. But not for dinner at a restaurant, or to work out, or how about work? Not so fast there.
Your tolerance for risk is yours, except that it is not. It has been taken away, with the threat of fines or jail in some instances when, in fact, the same rules should apply.
Especially after we learned what a non-threat this virus is to the majority of the population. And without any regard to the harm caused as a result of a response to something that posed no real threat to them in the first place.
| NY Post
