stephanie on Twitter: "there’s also a certain disparity between a lot of tech discussion as to how we sequence genomes or enable remote work or whatever and not how we make sure the people around us can afford to get tested and receive care… https://t.co/jVwLXnKuJD"

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not surprising but still striking how basically none of the vcs talking about coronavirus have mentioned american healthcare costs in all their discussions of solutions measures

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stephanie‏ @isosteph Feb 29

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like nobody expects them to be all in for bernie or whatever but given their level of paranoid talk about public health & quarantine & viral transmission & "we were right to be worried" the lack of consideration for the state of the system is.....notable

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Zaki Manian‏ @zmanian Feb 29

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Seems to be some discussion as a trigger for universal healthcare https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1232505237396754433?s=21 …https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1232505237396754433 …

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A competent government would do some combination of nationalism, socialism, technology. - Necessary quarantines, travel restrictions - Universal healthcare for virus-affected - Omnibus bill for vaccines, antivirals - Expedite FDA approval for diagnostics https://twitter.com/ScottGottliebMD/status/1231946561405509636 …

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stephanie‏ @isosteph Feb 29

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"universal healthcare for virus-affected" is cute i sure hope he's including everyone who has to get tested & everyone who gets put under quarantine/monitoring because those cost money too and at that point that's basically just uhh universal healthcare

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Zaki Manian‏ @zmanian Feb 29

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There was another tweet about just nationalizing health care that I can’t find.

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stephanie‏ @isosteph Feb 29

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yeah i will say i think balaji is generally ridiculous but at this point he’s tweeted so much about corona that he’s one of the few tech ppl finally getting close to the real problems

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People talking about this were called hypochondriacs. But now it looks like Iran is at mass grave stage. To be clear, I have zero beef w/ you. I am just trying to understand a public health crisis. Perhaps we can do that as fellow citizens and be sarcastic after this is solved.pic.twitter.com/yV0MqCuoTQ

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stephanie‏ @isosteph Feb 29

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i think there’s a difference between talking about the epidemic that people have legitimately discussed as such since it came out and the early overreactions a lot of tech people came out with wrt their personal behaviors even before the virus had left hubei

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there’s also a certain disparity between a lot of tech discussion as to how we sequence genomes or enable remote work or whatever and not how we make sure the people around us can afford to get tested and receive care

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  Both/and. Step 1 is recognizing it wasn't hypochondria. Then: 1) Remote work: necessary as public health measure 2)Sequencing genomes: at minimum, need to sequence *viral* genomes to understand strains: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/genbank/sars-cov-2-seqs/ … 3) Healthcare: agree emergency action is neededpic.twitter.com/6ChEpDPQK2
  
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