Playing the opposite game with all recommendations from China and the WHO would have been a good start. I think responsibility and fear of discovery are at the core of how crucial information was suppressed and distorted leading to nonsensical actions like the SF rally for Chinatown in late February 2020.
Part of this has resolved itself since every piece of information is no longer being evaluated on whether it helps or hurts Trump.
1. We don't have enough pharma industry to manufacture our own supply. The founder and CEO of the largest Canada HQ'd pharma company was assassinated in 2017 and I'm sure that didn't help.
2. All of the U.S. supply was essentially created under the Trump admin. We were having a mini trade war and enforcing strong border control through that time. In more normal times we probably would have piggybacked on the American supply.
I think that is why our overall progress is more comparable to Europe and not the US.
The idea is hypothetical but they seem to believe it. There does seem to be a pathetic lack of interest in the virus itself, with so much focus on 2nd and 3rd order effects.
A 15 minute test could be more easily done before boarding a flight for example.
I'm not sure if it is really necessary either but mentally I'm at the point where I think we should just fire all available bullets at this thing, as they become available.
There are DNA based virus detection techniques that take fragments of DNA of unknown origin and compare them to a database of known bad stuff. So I think it could allow people that have the ability to sequence DNA to identify this virus if they have, for example, a patient.
Airlines sell tickets in advance, so hedging will allow them to match their near-future fuel prices to the ticket prices they're selling now. They consume fuel but don't produce it, so I don't think they can fully balance things out over time internally.
edit: I see this was mentioned already in the thread.
Classroom morality: the behaviors that make the teacher's day easier and get good grades.
Playground morality: the behaviors that make a kid popular and respected by the other children.
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This Nietzsche is interesting and it hit me like a slap in the face when I first encountered it, but the most fleshed out and vivid form of this type of thinking is Ribbonfarm Gervaise Principle articles.
Uniswap: https://uniswap.org/audit.html
Sushi Swap: https://github.com/peckshield/publications/blob/master/audit...
Alpaca Finance (high complexity in my opinion): https://docs.alpacafinance.org/transparency
A lot of projects provide their source and you can verify that what you're interacting with matches the source.