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sao phải xoắn,

luôn có rủi ro, không đánh giá đúng hết được,

cần những tay đánh bạc điên rồ, như Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk, nếu không, làm sao chúng ta có du hành không gian tư nhân,

trước 2020 thì quá an tâm với dịch bệnh, giờ thì lại xoắn quá...
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The reality is that thanks to the vaccines, Covid, including in its delta variant, has been downgraded and is on the verge of becoming normalised. It will now surely become endemic like influenza (chỉ như cúm mùa), which kills some 17,000 in England in an average year and often a lot fewer. Covid’s ongoing toll (thiệt hại) is likely to be roughly similar; a mature, embedded virus would not require contact tracing (không cần truy vết tiếp xúc) and endlessly pinging apps, but the adult population would need to remain up to date with vaccinations, including jabs configured to protect against the latest variants.

Why, then, the continued panic? Why are so many still behaving as if we were in March 2020, when we looked on aghast (kinh hãi, kinh hoàng, thất kinh) at pictures of collapsing Italian hospitals (hệ thống bệnh viện ở Ý sụp đổ), realising that our complacent (tự mãn) world was about to be upended? The lure of turning back the clock, of the risk-free zero-Covid society, an impossibility even if every human being in the word were double-jabbed, looms large over our public consciousness.
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For such a rational, amazing species, we are singularly unable to assess risk correctly (không thể đánh giá rủi ro một cách đúng đắn). This is at once a blessing and a debilitating (làm suy yếu, làm suy nhược) pathology. We need mad gamblers (tay đánh bạc, con bạc): if Jeff Bezos and Elon Musk hadn’t believed, against all the odds, that they could be successful, the tech revolution would never have materialised, and neither would the age of private space travel. But errors work both ways: we can be too pessimistic as well as too optimistic. We were too relaxed about the risks of pandemics prior to 2020, and now many people are too scared about the threat of Covid today.

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