[FRIAM] Where Are Coronavirus Cases Getting Worse? Explore Risk Levels County By County : Shots - Health News : NPR

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In principle, yes. But as the arguments with SteveS and Dave about seatbelts and motorcycle gear indicates, even *if* a discussant understands the unintended consequences of some action and intricate reasoning like survivorship bias, there's an overwhelming tendency (in all of us!) to think selfishly first, otherishly second. So, harping on red citizens about visiting yellow/green places will likely just annoy them and summon up their selfish tendencies.

I don't know how to solve this problem. My structure of shame separates shame from shaming and divides shame into 3 scopes: embarrassment, guilt, and shame. I think both embarrassment and guilt tend to summon up selfish tendencies because they're more acute and amenable to re-action, whereas shame tends to summon up self-deprecation and is amenable to long-term strategy. I'd like to find a technique for shaming that targets self-deprecation but does NOT target embarrassment or guilt. Supplication is one plausible technique ... phrasing things like "Please don't visit us if you're in a high infection rate county." If done respectfully, only the most hard-core sociopath can ignore that sort of expression. (I relied on it quite a bit during my chem/drug treatment, when my lymphocyte counts were super low.) But I don't know how to institutionalize that.


On 7/1/20 10:32 AM, Jon Zingale wrote:
> The interviewee mentions emphasis on personal decision making, though it
> seems that this tool is too crude to be very useful. She also mentions that
> if one is planning to visit a county marked in red, that they should
> reconsider, but what about the opposite message? It seems that it might be
> advantageous to remind people in red counties (presumably places were group
> action hasn't been up to snuff) to not visit yellow are green places. This
> argument is made often for the use of masks, shouldn't we be more active in
> spreading that message with regards travel?


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