First time! In history!
Apr 27, 2020
BS spotting du jour.
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb (@nntaleb) April 27, 2020
Throughout history, we've ben quarantining "healthy" and "unhealthy" people. For the very reason that we only know ex post whether they are healthy or not. https://t.co/YD10PiUTX9
All he had to do was look at the US a few years back when quite a few "healthy" doctors and nurses were quarantined. Why? The quarantines -- 21 days! -- were an "overreaction" when a couple of doctors returned from Africa with the Ebola virus and one of them died.
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