Paul GrahamVerified account

Amen

If we open and the infection wave grows again and we start getting overwhelmed, we'll have little choice but to go back on lockdown. Though, as @balajis has been pointing out, different states may go green or red, making the dynamics of lockdown cycles almost like a Go board.

This is true, except that "there will be the same people". You cannot imagine how irrationality works. How much you underestimate irationality to put it in only one category of people, at the time that has many faces. You are irrational too after this tweet! #sorrynotsorry

If we left things to belief, most people wouldn't get past "the earth is flat".

Survival of the fittest, is actually evolution in progress... Ironic.

And how few people can name the first three Presidents. Or how few people can do basic math in their head. Or.... Etc. "The masses are asses" Alexander Hamilton