Venkatesh Rao

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.

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 $.

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.

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.

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.