So, as a new round of #COVID19 sweeps the US, we should realize people didn& #39;t need stay-at-home orders to change their behaviors, much as gay men didn& #39;t need official HIV prevention programs to start reducing unsafe sex. @WilliamJLuther @DanWohlfeiler 1/
There is a basic empathy for others, fear for ourselves, which can motivate people to do extraordinary things. We need to figure out how to support people, not coerce or shame people. 2/
This means creating what we call in HIV "an enabling environment," which means our interventions need to be on the structures that push people into the paths of epidemics. 3/
So we can create incentives as @jabarocas has suggested, have better leadership modeling better choices (please god), put into place things like universal sick pay and other ways to allow people to do the right thing. 4/