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Also checkout Taleb's paper on Precautionary Principle https://www.fooledbyrandomness.com/pp2.pdf

"If an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing severe harm to the public domain, the action should not be taken in the absence of scientific near-certainty about its safety."

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> If an action or policy has a suspected risk of causing severe harm to the public domain, the action should not be taken in the absence of scientific near-certainty about its safety.

I have heard that we are using the precautionary principle regarding covid. Yet we applied lockdowns, masks and various other measures that the WHO had declared likely to cause more harm than benefit (2019 Pandemic guideline) for a disease that has had a worldwide mortality rate of 0.05% worldwide.

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