[ExI] cumulative cost of shutdown

[Mike Dougherty]

On Wed, Apr 7, 2021, 8:02 PM Stathis Papaioannou via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> What other explanations are there for the very low rates of COVID, and the
> relatively healthy levels of economic activity and normalcy in everyday
> life, in countries such as China?
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Low[er] rate is a lie
Health[ier] economic life is a lie

Oh that sounds deliberate and coordinated; to present their situation as
better than our situation.  No government is capable of something so
massively immoral.

Perhaps the noisy data spike keeps combing for signal isn't intentionally
faulty as much as it is multivariate but displayed in too few dimensions.
Cases/day vs time is how normalized data is packaged and sold to
management,  but what isn't being shown?

Where is the money?

What smaller, yet still complex systems could serve as analogous to
governments as organisms- each trying different strategies to overcome a
resource/energy  boundary or predator threat?  How would ants or bees cope
with a covid-equivalent?  Colony-collapse has certainly wrecked many bees.
Do ants have something similar? Or are ants mostly a trope for too
insignificant to monitor? (Unless you are spike)

I think my subconscious "what if" pattern recognizer is stuck on
covid-as-tool. If so, who is wielding it? Was it built for this purpose, or
is it still in learning/practice mode?  Rafal's suggestion that mass
deployment of vaccines bothered me not on the antivax front, but on the
Orwellian/Huxley front.  Maybe money is a secondary target now that meme
warfare has advanced from musket to machine gun.

If there is any hope it is that humanity's covid fever breaks and we emerge
weakened but resolute to be healthier than before.  Healthier than before
in all aspects that covid weakened.

I may be tuned to see the negative, but the fact is the negative extremes
are just as [un]likely as the positive extremes.  We might have much in new
positives as new negatives and not even notice because they negate each
other and leave us with what we view as status quo.

As we are about to enter air conditioning season, I am particularly
grateful for modern problems and modern solutions.

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