[conspire] CABAL in the time of Cholera^W SARS-CoV-2: March event cancelled

[Ruben Safir]

> 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.




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