1. Woman asking what color a sweater was, to confirm its color. Was maybe a 30 second call.
2. Teenager with a box of paint supplies wondering if the box has an expiration date, since the paint felt weirdly thick. 2 minute call, then we chatted a few minutes.
In the US, asbestos litigation has a special system where lots of companies are named in each suit, then they compete to eliminate themselves as the main contributors to the person's ailments.
For example, if a person did a brake job in the
50s once, Napa Auto Parts is in the lawsuit because they made brake pads with asbestos. But oh, they were boilermaker for decades, working around asbestos-lined systems? Well, Napa is probably off the hook or they'll chuck a few thousand at the person to settle, leaving the larger source more on the hook.
It's a game of subtraction and divvying up cost by contributing exposure mostly.
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Yes. Napa and other brake manufacturers are called into lots of mesothelioma trials. Brake pad exposure is usually smaller contributors to such cases. That is, the victim often had much worse exposure other places, but they still look at how much brake pad exposure the person had too.
A podcast, think it was Stuff to Blow Your Mind, did a podcast on the Guinea Worm and talked about this at length. The worm is wildly infectious. Every incident requires immediate deployment of teams of people to control it or it explodes with re-infections. There are wild populations of the worm still, which are the main source of ongoing infections.
The 28 cases doesn't indicate low importance, it indicates those are enough to re-seed the worm if huge areas if not vigorously acted on, every time they see a new case.
I'm surely getting some details wrong, but it sounds like zero for several years has to be the goal, or it'll rebound swiftly.
Indeed! This was mentioned in David Brin's book "Earth". It discussed tracking mosquitoes with vision or radar or something and using lasers to zap them. The interesting bit was only zapping dangerous types of mosquitoes, based on wing-beating speed of different species. And that book was from 1990 I think.
This type of "low tech" idea seems like the kind of thing Google, Yelp, and all the other big companies should be doing a better job with.
I have celiac and presumably Google has figured that out by now (or could, if they spent some time determining allergies for accounts). Yet in Google Maps I have to type "restaurant gluten free" when looking for food options. Then I have to poke around to see which might be legitimately gluten free. I've been typing this in for a decade, and never has Maps learned this basic time-saving assumption it should make.
Same with Yelp. It hasn't figured out that I always filter by gluten free and search reviews for that. It never just makes gluten free restaurants prominent, nor follows up with me the next day on whether it made me ill or things like that.
As you say, it's baffling the simple filtering that could be done based on known user information. Note that my story is about gluten free, but would apply to any number of food allergies or dietary preferences, yet the "market leaders" seem unable to innovate on this specificity.
1. Woman asking what color a sweater was, to confirm its color. Was maybe a 30 second call.
2. Teenager with a box of paint supplies wondering if the box has an expiration date, since the paint felt weirdly thick. 2 minute call, then we chatted a few minutes.