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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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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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Also networks, which are the basis for all that, fiber and 4G, and lots of rapid heavy work done to absorb the surge in emergency calls that are a matter of life and death.