104. Coronavirus Rules Everything Around Me

104. Coronavirus Rules Everything Around Me

Author: Nick Jamell March 25, 2020 Duration: 35:32

Over the last couple of weeks and months I’ve avoided putting out an opinion on the Wuhan Flu, But with the reactions we’ve seen from authorities, I think it’s important to have different ideas out there

There is a lot of chaos for sure, but reaction I’ve seen thus far ignores any consequences and trade offs that are being made.

-Dwight D. Eisenhower“Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and cooperation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.”

Today, I’d like to talk about trade-offs and how they are not being discussed. Then, we can look at other plans and see if we can come to something more sensible and takes all things into account.

To start, let’s look at what a trade off is. Basically, every decision you make means you didn’t make an infinite set of other decisions. Al the decisions you could have gone with instead are a trade off.

Here are some other tactics that are being used:

  • Quarantine only the sick and the susceptible
  • Test everyone who shows symptoms at all
  • Young people go about their business but cleaner and with more Lysol

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