Here in Israel, the only communication by the ministry of health regarding monkeypox is about confirmed cases and increasing awareness and alertness for the symptoms.
And this has actually led to (in my opinion) too much worrying in the public—I’ve found myself having to tell friends repeatedly about the useful info in this other Vox article about why monkeypox isn’t that worrying.
Huh, interesting example of “should you reverse any advice you hear?”. I have mostly encountered US articles in which CDC, etc experts are quoted telling the public unhelpful things like “very few people have monkeypox in the US right now” and “there’s no evidence this variant is more transmissible” and “don’t panic”.
To be clear, though, I don’t think EAs should worry about monkeypox more than they currently are—EAs are already pretty aware that pandemics can be very bad and in favor of doing more to detect them early, understand how exponential growth works, and are in a pretty functional information ecosystem where they’ll hear about monkeypox if it becomes a matter of greater personal safety concern or if we get to the point where it’s a good idea for people to get smallpox vaccinations.
What is this article in response to?
Here in Israel, the only communication by the ministry of health regarding monkeypox is about confirmed cases and increasing awareness and alertness for the symptoms.
And this has actually led to (in my opinion) too much worrying in the public—I’ve found myself having to tell friends repeatedly about the useful info in this other Vox article about why monkeypox isn’t that worrying.
Huh, interesting example of “should you reverse any advice you hear?”. I have mostly encountered US articles in which CDC, etc experts are quoted telling the public unhelpful things like “very few people have monkeypox in the US right now” and “there’s no evidence this variant is more transmissible” and “don’t panic”.
To be clear, though, I don’t think EAs should worry about monkeypox more than they currently are—EAs are already pretty aware that pandemics can be very bad and in favor of doing more to detect them early, understand how exponential growth works, and are in a pretty functional information ecosystem where they’ll hear about monkeypox if it becomes a matter of greater personal safety concern or if we get to the point where it’s a good idea for people to get smallpox vaccinations.