It is kinda dumb that we haven’t explored low-tech smart distancing options in any detail. It’s either brute force total lockdown or geewhiz blockchain on phones crypto health surveillance stuff.
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It’s also dumb that we’re letting the most economically backward states with smallest, most primitive economies own the open-the-economy case, while the economies with the most to lose are kinda not putting enough brrrrainpower on the problem.
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I’m kinda glad Trump balked at actually backing Kemp’s play. Now it’s at least no longer a signal of Trumpism to want rapid reopening. Kemp’s particular model was dumb but there’s got to be fast reopen playbooks that can start today. This phase 1-phase 2 thing is trench warfare.
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I think the reason I weight the economic problem more than most is that I suspect a recovery pathway, if this goes too deep, will be even harder to create than a vaccine. Especially in the developing world.
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Or to put it bluntly, if we wait to hit the cause-of-death indifference curve (1 covid death = 1 death by starvation = financial-distress suicide seems to be subconscious moral trolley calculus), the economy will be irrecoverable and political stability will unravel entirely.
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How likely do you think that people will wear masks? Actually follow prevention protocols?
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If it’s a condition of returning to work, most will. It’s just like a drivers license. Most drivers have one.
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Venkat says "Everyone who belongs on the B ark, just stay home." No one stays home.
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