[ExI] L5 society and infections

[Giulio Prisco]

The hatch? ��

On 2020. Mar 21., Sat at 12:24, Henrik Ohrstrom via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> When I was an young impressionable larvae I read O'Neills book about
> orbital colonisation and then I wondered about infelicitous problems.
> Nowhere in that book do they discuss quarantine and infections.
> How was this question addressed in L5 circles?
>
> /Henrik
>
> Den fre 20 mars 2020 01:57Keith Henson via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> skrev:
>
>> spike wrote:
>>
>> > If covid is with us indefinitely, we will face it again next flu season,
>>
>> It won't be.  For some countries such as Iran, it will infect most of
>> the population with a high death toll.  China seems to have stopped
>> it.  It is hard to say what the US will be like, but I seriously doubt
>> it will last a year.
>>
>> > Colleges will need to transition to distance learning.
>>
>> I doubt it.  Somewhere around is an article Freeman Dyson wrote about
>> his daughter Esther Dyson's time at Harvard.  She recognized that who
>> you know is at least as important as what you know.  Few college
>> students understand that.  She did and if you read into her Wikipedia
>> page you can see what she did with that knowledge.
>>
>> Keith
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