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by kerneloftruth 1597 days ago
This is especially timely and relevant as a recent John's Hopkins study reports: https://health.wusf.usf.edu/health-news-florida/2022-02-02/a...
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I feel like it's worth pointing out this study is from Johns Hopkins Institute for Applied Economics, Global Health and the Study of Business Enterprise.

The authors are all economists, none have a background in epidemiology or medicine.

Economists do this a lot.

Turns out Dvorak wasn't any better than Qwerty say keyboard ergonomic experts, oh no actually it's free market economists who think the market is never wrong and Qwerty is an annoyingly popular contradiction.

Betmax wasn't higher quality than VHS say analog video quality experts, oh no it's free market economists who think the market is never wrong and Betamax/VHS is an annoyingly popular counterexample.

Recycling doesn't actually help the planet say ecology experts, oh no wait it's those free market economists who don't believe the market is ever wrong and recycling is a popular counterpoint.

And so on..

None of the measures in the John's Hopkins study are currently in place.
Plenty still in place in Canada