What should we do? Flashcards
State some examples where rights and public health are at conflict
Opioids
Cigarettes
Hypertension and diet
Sugar sweetened diets
Seatbelts
Masks and covid
Guns and weaponry
Describe the Typhoid Mary case
Forcibly confined because she was stalked as an active carrier - nothing was explained to her well enough
Describe how Covid is an example of a clash of health and rights
Western countries had higher 2020 rates of COVID-19 infections compared to Asian countries because of the West’s aversion to wearing masks.
Explain the idea of dosage
Low doses of things are good/ minimal
High doses can be lethal
Describe what we should do next to be ready
If you consider evolutionary mismatch, you’ll be better prepared for the changes.
Good decisions require good data
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