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The key is to have this feeling without a bunch of new permanent norms/rules/programs ala patriot act. Countermeasures should be powerful and removable.

Oh, they understand it. They just understand their bottom line better...

Not seeing a tsunami, or pandemic, is excusable; but building something so fragile to them is not.

There are plenty of overreactions that would be worse than the problem. Martial law. Suspend elections. Close down trucking, groceries, food processing. War. Easy to own the overreaction if you don't own the fallout.

This sums up my decade of working on climate change research pretty well.

That is globally true. Or at least in the oldest and biggest democracies of the world.

As you suggest we’re fighting day-to-day against an enemy that moves weeks in advance. Our leaders activity needs not only to trigger accusations about today’s actions, but for tomorrow’s. We need a public roadmap with contingency forks.

I've seen exponential growth of positive test results, but without population-level random testing, that's all that can be conclusively said to be "exponential"