Comment by 0xbadcafebee
4 hours ago
This is like buying something from the grocery store and then waiting a week to eat it in case the FDA put out a warning about it.
4 hours ago
This is like buying something from the grocery store and then waiting a week to eat it in case the FDA put out a warning about it.
If there was a good reason to believe the pop tarts you buy might unexpectedly be contaminated with dioxins, waiting a week would be prudent.
More akin to letting astronauts stay in quarantine for a day in case they caught space bugs.
If every other week I would notice the FDA recalls a popular brand that would have taken over my brain and transmit my bank password and SSN to a stranger, I might prefer drinking week old milk.
Edit: not dismissing your analogy, it’s pretty much it.
If nobody drinks the milk until it’s a week old, that won’t help.
I do think cooldowns help, it’s more that this analogy doesn’t help.
The cow has to wake up and look at what milk she’s been putting out, and ideally the milk machine would use an early release channel so that some people will get the brain virus first.
No it's not. That's a terrible analogy.
It's exactly the same. With both you have no idea if you'll be compromised once you pick up a new item from the store. With both you wait a week, in case the authorities issue a recall. With both you use it after that one week of waiting. Both are relying on luck to be safe.
The crazy thing is the risk from food is higher, we just don't really mind, because it's rare that we personally get affected