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Depending on how things turn out in the end, this may be the most important thing yCombinator has achieved, ever.
by jacobush 7y ago
Depending on how things turn out in the end, this may be the most important thing yCombinator has achieved, ever.
- onion2k 7y agoWe'll never know. If it works then Covid-19 will be a footnote in history, a temporary problem that was quickly solved. We won't know if it would have become an extinction-threatening event or if it would have fizzled out on it's own, or anything in between. If it doesn't work then YC's input wasn't important and didn't help.
- slimed 7y agoThis take is too pessimistic. Eventually we will have enough data to project what could have happened without treatments like this. We will know the rate of infection, the rate of death without treatment, etc. There will be many different groups globally trying to find out these answers and apply them to preventing future pandemics.
- cmauniada 7y agoI mean, I get where you are coming from but it still is a huge stretch to make a blanket statement like that.