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Burger,

The folks at the Times seem to be monitoring your postings.  And also able to generate opinion pieces extremely rapidly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opini...e=Homepage

Ha. I'm pretty sure the Times don't listen to me because I cancelled my subscription a few months ago :)

But seriously, a lot of medical ethics is simply outdated right now.  More generally, the entire field of medicine is too risk averse.  What might be prudent and ethical in normal times is not so anymore.  This op-ed is so spineless and milquetoast that I could barely get through it.  The best that they can do is "maybe we should think about doing challenge trials...after we spend more time thinking about it."  Of course medical ethicists think this is a rash idea.  It's pretty much their job to be a wet blanket when it comes to taking risks.  And, in ordinary times, that is a good thing.  But with thousands (tens of thousands maybe?) dying every day, the time for caution is long past. 

If the Times is listening, I'd like to see an op ed from some of the volunteers who are willing to risk their lives to speed things up.  That would be a much more interesting perspective.

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Burger,

The folks at the Times seem to be monitoring your postings.  And also able to generate opinion pieces extremely rapidly.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/02/opini...e=Homepage

Ha. I'm pretty sure the Times don't listen to me because I cancelled my subscription a few months ago :)

But seriously, a lot of medical ethics is simply outdated right now.  More generally, the entire field of medicine is too risk averse.  What might be prudent and ethical in normal times is not so anymore.  This op-ed is so spineless and milquetoast that I could barely get through it.  The best that they can do is "maybe we should think about doing challenge trials...after we spend more time thinking about it."  Of course medical ethicists think this is a rash idea.  It's pretty much their job to be a wet blanket when it comes to taking risks.  And, in ordinary times, that is a good thing.  But with thousands (tens of thousands maybe?) dying every day, the time for caution is long past. 

If the Times is listening, I'd like to see an op ed from some of the volunteers who are willing to risk their lives to speed things up.  That would be a much more interesting perspective.