How much would it have been had we invested a few billion ahead of time?
In my 'Effective Altruism' seminar last year, we tried to estimate how much we should invest in preventing global pandemics. Most students thought a few $billion/year. Now Covid-19 is costing global tourism 1 million jobs a day, & $2 trillion this year.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/02/world/americas/virus-tourism-caribbean.html …
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What’s even more mind blowing: they still think it’s better to invest in- and obviate the consequences while going all-in on the cause is far more effective.
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Fair point.
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But I guess this is how error correction actually works...
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fine, but is preventing pandemics simply a matter of cash? The CCP behavior, putting political considerations above health, had a part in the Covid disaster. WHO politics also hindered the job they should do. You seem to be in the simplistic "throw money at the problem" mode.
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I don't think that's what he's saying. He saying we weren't prepared because we couldn't find the motivation, time or money, despite the warnings. In hindsight, that was a terrible mistake because of the cost(s) of not doing so.
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The virus isnt costing anything... the hysterical, baseless panic is causing the economic devastation
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It’s not covid shutting down the economy, it’s the governments . No prevention for government stupidity exists .
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