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Scenario Z: Covid is never brought under control, mutates too much every season to be managed like the flu, and goes endemic with higher base fatality rate and is too costly to chase with vaccines. Joins the top-3 ranks of steady modern killers alongside heart disease and cancer.
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c'mon, you follow me, I regularly to mention I've solved this. I might not be able to psychologically handle consumers (including consumer grade businesses), but I'm working with another team that is building a Kickstarter so it will get taken care of eventually. Plus USAF $.
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No you haven’t solved this. You have delusions of grandeur from having *maybe* figured out a small part, and vast resentments and grudges against systems you have no clue how to influence. You think asserting you have solved a problem is the same as actually solving it.
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It hasn't been deployed, and as people are fond of saying these days, it's distribution that is hard. I have no delusions of grandeur. I've always stated that it's a trivial problem that should have been solved 1000 times over and have no margin for people with my skillset.
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That's why I didn't even consider it for months and tried to do a smaller niche thing initially with a copper coating -- in response to what WHO, CDC were claiming, no less -- that fomites mattered. They were wrong, and they're slowly admitting it.
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You don't want me to be right because of what it implies about institutions (big mood). I operated in response to what many aerosol scientists DEFINITIVELY said, I listened to their conference talks in August, among other things.
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I also stress-tested against other engineers, because it seemed absolutely ridiculous that we would find ourselves in this situation, so I added an extra layer of scrutiny.
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I get what you mean. I'm taking more of a math "a solution exists" definition vs engineering. VCs have a short attention span in my experience, and if there's nuance, it's hard to say something that stands out. I assure you median smallsat launch co WAY more imprecise w/ VCs.
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