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| DATE | 2020-03-16 |
| FROM | Ruben Safir
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| SUBJECT | Re: [Hangout - NYLXS] [conspire] CABAL in the time of Cholera^W
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> So it fails in all these ways.
>
> As for the theory that solving the Y2K problem made people under value
> the problem, as opposed to heading off the virus early, I find that
> wholy unsatisfactory. The Y2K problem really wasn't that complex. I
> have reviewed at NYU Dental School nearly all of the systems for Y2K
> bugs, and the time the only software to suffer from the Y2K problem was
> a clinical system that was already being replaced, because we outgrew
> it. Alas, we had no cobol systems in our immediate control. Regardless
> of that. The Covid-19 virus actually is VERY complex, and presents a
> problem that the Y2K problem just didn't scale. And the action that
> would have been needed to head it off would be truly draconian by
> comparision to any solutions for Y2K. It was and does cut right to the
> core of our existence as a social species, tangles internation trade,
> international and domestic politics, making life and death decisions to
> isolate populations, media response, public expectations, civil
> liberies, medical research, etc etc.
>
> The problems in a nutshell don't compare even in that narrow
> perspective.
>
>
One of the most interesting things about this, FWIW is that even in 1918
they produced a vaccination by October of 1918. I'm not sure how long
they actually worked on it but it underscores, in my mind, that there is
NO DAMN WAY that a century later that it should take one year to work up
a vaccination. And they got the vaccination prototyped and to mass
usage in about 30 days because they just cut through all the crap and
went straight for a cure and crossed their fingers.
Word of the day - Virtual : Vitural museums, virtual school, virtual
synagauges...
I bet 10 Qumquates on the Star Fleet Captain...
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