Tech is getting insufficient credit for the current situation response.
This entire social distancing protocol made possible by social media, zoom, video games. Also streaming TV, movies. Everything you thought was bad for you is now saving lives. You’re welcome.
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Not to mention coordination to source masks and hack ventilators and stuff.
And for those on Twitter, 1-4 weeks early warning. At the level intelligence committees were getting. You could have dumped stock and bought puts like senators. Not to mention lots of toilet paper.
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Walden pond is closed to prevent covid19 spread. Go back to your phone.
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I just bought an oculus quest. This is the answer. In 10 years we’d better have a strategic stockpile of VR headsets too not just ventilators. And a VR backup of entire world to live in while Covid29 happens. Including all public spaces. Alt earth. Pre-distanced mirror world.
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I would argue that US tech sector has whiffed on two core specific responses (tracking, tests) and unintentionally laid foundation for the third (social isolation / remote coordination). Asian tech sectors seem to have done better with tracking and tests
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Tracking and testing isn’t tech sector in the narrow sense since health surveillance is too regulated for Silicon Valley style innovation playbook to apply.
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thank you dude for saving all our lives you are the florence fucking nightingale of 21st c will name my son vgr after you.
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