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In industrial engineering/quality control there is a concept called Alpha Errors vs Beta Errors.

Alpha errors is when you make a mistake that prevents something good from happening.

Beta Errors is when you make a mistake by allowing something bad to happen.

Alpha Errors > Beta Errors.

That’s basically the entire approach to the pandemic until we started to learn more and understand more about it.

You can’t judge people now looking back.

They were working on at the Alpha, you skipped alpha and went and risked a beta error.

You both are not the same.

That’s great for industrial design, in public health terms there was almost no risk to young people.

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Yeah.. saying sorry I beta error fucked up my kid doesn’t really cut it, does it.

They are both errors. It was difficult to know what’s right and what’s wrong at the time.

The idea at the time was not to protect the kids, it was to protect everyone from kids carrying it…. and others the same.

Some people went overboard.

Personally, our family tried to stay in the middle as much as possible. We turned out fine, and none of us got Covid.

That idea was stupid and people that forced masks on children should be ashamed.