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Holiday travel notes
(Pandemic Diary – day 201)
From my journal: 15 September 2020 (Tuesday)
- The complex calculus of risk assessment.
- What is the possibility that the virus is present?
- What is the likelihood that you’ll catch it if it’s present?
- Are you going to make your decision based on the most likely outcome, or the most dangerous outcome?
- What’s the downside, what’s the worst case scenario?
Fact: our families have taken a much redder, riskier path through the pandemic than we have. (They’re entitled to make their own decisions, but our decisions that involve them must account for the decisions they’ve made.)
- Thanksgiving and/or Christmas together? It’s not looking good.