With respect to Covid, I am pretty sure the EA community and related communities incurred more costs in avoiding the risk of dying of Covid than was warranted.
I think this pretty true for the San Francisco-based and rationalist strands of the community. But in New York/London/Oxford, people were more balanced—being cautious for an initial several months, then reverting back to normal at a similar time to the rest of society.
I think this pretty true for the San Francisco-based and rationalist strands of the community. But in New York/London/Oxford, people were more balanced—being cautious for an initial several months, then reverting back to normal at a similar time to the rest of society.