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the covid-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving. Through a combination of epidemiology and physics—including knowledge of the virus’s character and how aerosols float in the air—we are learning more about how the microbe infects new hosts.
This understanding is fuelling hopes that we will soon be able to counter the pandemic more effectively. But it has also led to some contentious exchanges regarding the social sciences and the interaction between social norms and the law.
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Opinion | Coronavirus and the rising value of relying upon common sense
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4 min read . 05 Aug 2020
Kaushik Basu
As we learn more about covid-19, the flexibility of social norms could serve us better than heavy-handed application of laws
As the covid-19 pandemic rages on, our understanding of it is improving. Through a combination of epidemiology and physics—including knowledge of the virus’s character and how aerosols float in the air—we are learning more about how the microbe infects new hosts.
This understanding is fuelling hopes that we will soon be able to counter the pandemic more effectively. But it has also led to some contentious exchanges regarding the social sciences and the interaction between social norms and the law.
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Ever since the pandemic began to spread beyond Wuhan and around the world, there has been an increasingly acrimonious debate regarding which preventive measures should be decreed by government and enforced by public officials and the police, and which should be promoted as social norms. Unfortunately, this debate has become so polarized that people are immediately classified as right-wing or left-wing depending on their view. Because people often do not like to be categorized in this way, and certainly not wrongly, many are reluctant to express themselves on this important question.
In fact, on many coronavirus-related matters, we need enforceable laws. Especially in the early days of the pandemic, when people understood little about the virus, treating public-health measures as matters of personal choice was folly. Because some people decided to gather in large groups and not wear face masks, the disease became widespread in some countries, with Brazil under President Jair Bolsonaro and the United States under President Donald Trump being prime examples
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