a virus that at the time was considered to not be that dangerous to young and healthy people
I don’t think this was true at the time. Not even for a young, healthy person only caring about themselves.
But I think the following categories probably cover 30-90% of participants in EA events anyway:
People who have a health issue that makes them more susceptible
People who aren’t that young
People who are close to someone in one of the above categories
People who don’t want to catch the disease because they know there’s a high chance they’d infect other people
I also don’t think an efficient tool to help EAs with personal exercise would be a bad thing.
In the end, you have a community of EAs, and you want people who’ll do impactful work to come from that community. If the community is unhealthy, less people would join, and out of those who do join less people would be able to make an impactful contribution. Community health is a meta cause, but that doesn’t make it inferior to “direct work” cause areas.
Edit: with all of this said, I don’t actually mean this as an endorsement of microCOVID. I didn’t find it very useful, both because I wasn’t sure what meaning I should really assign to the numbers, and because I didn’t have much choice over my environment at EA Global.
I don’t think this was true at the time. Not even for a young, healthy person only caring about themselves.
But I think the following categories probably cover 30-90% of participants in EA events anyway:
People who have a health issue that makes them more susceptible
People who aren’t that young
People who are close to someone in one of the above categories
People who don’t want to catch the disease because they know there’s a high chance they’d infect other people
I also don’t think an efficient tool to help EAs with personal exercise would be a bad thing.
In the end, you have a community of EAs, and you want people who’ll do impactful work to come from that community. If the community is unhealthy, less people would join, and out of those who do join less people would be able to make an impactful contribution. Community health is a meta cause, but that doesn’t make it inferior to “direct work” cause areas.
Edit: with all of this said, I don’t actually mean this as an endorsement of microCOVID. I didn’t find it very useful, both because I wasn’t sure what meaning I should really assign to the numbers, and because I didn’t have much choice over my environment at EA Global.