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    1. Farhat Habib‏ @far_hat Mar 20
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      Recency bias. This isn't the first pandemic. Spanish flu didn't change people wanting to move to cities.

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    2. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 20
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      They didn’t have the choices we do now tho

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    3. Francis Jervis‏ @f_j_j_ Mar 20
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      Not sure increasing urbanization is still optional bc climate

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    4. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Mar 20
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      Yea, I'm with those dudes @vgr - we're more likely to have FLIR w/ face detection, disease monitoring stations, instant broad spectrum tests, etc than to move out of cities.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 20
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      I hope so, but those do seem like authoritah tech Americans in particular may strongly resist

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    6. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Mar 20
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      A lot of FLIR are already deployed the others could be opt out, but insurance would likely highly encourage it. I still think people would complain less than moving out of cities

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    7. Francis Jervis‏ @f_j_j_ Mar 20
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      I wonder if you are operating on different priors. Mine are that the age profile of disease holds/distinction intensifies btwn "Covid respiratory syndrome" and normal course (±99%). Public won't submit to this altruistically, even if they should, which is questionable.

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    8. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Mar 20
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      Submit to what specifically?

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    9. Francis Jervis‏ @f_j_j_ Mar 20
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      Implication was Wuhan-style mandatory quarantine for anyone w fever? Or just entry restrictions? Either way.

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    10. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Mar 20
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      More along the lines @vgr was talking about for the long term. It would be a monitoring system to see fever % of population as an early warning perhaps. Govt can then take action from there.

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 20
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      Pretty hard sensing problem though, given asymptomatic transmissions

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        2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Mar 20
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          Of course, but I assume occurrence increase, and avg temperature of fever, etc may work. Without getting bogged down in specific FLIR tech though, there's a lot of existing monitoring solutions if we cared to implement them.

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        3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Mar 20
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          Hmm. Worth spec’ing out the project.

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        1. Galen Hines-Pierce‏ @teh_galen Mar 21
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          What about @BiobotAnalytics? Any merit to 24-hour sewage flows the same way they look at opiods? https://www.biobot.io/covid19.php 

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