*I have been asked more than once, "How did the Doomsday Clock miss the coronavirus?" The truth is that it didn’t.* It identified political denigration of science as the underlying threat.
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*I have been asked more than once, "How did the Doomsday Clock miss the coronavirus?" The truth is that it didn’t.* It identified political denigration of science as the underlying threat.
The US does not have enough trained contact tracers to cope with the consequences of reopening business.
Here, I suspect, is where the experience with SARS 20 years ago aided the Asian countries that it hit. They made sure they had a contact-tracing system ready to activate when the next new disease came. Business-dominated countries, where the cult of the invisible hand is the established church, decided to spare the expense.
5G communication technology from the same contemptuous ISP megacorporations is not a step forward. Let's replace them, instead, with municipal broadband.
To realize the full potential for improvement, municipal broadband should not insist on identifying every user, nor record what internet hosts a user connects to, except under the order of a specific search warrant.
I support municipal broadband because it could provide a good system for connecting to the internet. But if we want an internet that is good to connect to, that's a separate issue. To achieve that, we must eliminate the pervasive injustices of most internet usage: luring or pressuring people into using the nonfree software and online dis-services.