> In developed countries, I see no reason why there would be any need for "massive transportation" Mirioron answered. > Even if it were necessary, mitigation

> In developed countries, I see no reason why there would be any need for "massive transportation" Mirioron answered. > Even if it were necessary, mitigation measures are neither difficult nor expensive The very reason why the virus spreads like it does February is because it is difficult and expensive. > Perhaps we could just leave it to the markets. The current state of affairs in the US, as in most countries, is crony capitalism, which has nothing to do with 'leaving it to the markets'. Isn't 'maximising efficiency' the very raison d'être of the 'pan-national effort' you proposed? Isn't it also the reason why huge amounts of humans live in giant and dense cities, with strong central government powers? From an organizational standpoint those are the main causes of the present crisis: total failure at detecting it early (the Chinese doc was censored), then at devising and implementing adequate measures (the faulty CDC coronavirus test is a prominent case, there are many others), and now at managing a major crisis (in most European countries the reality is that nearly no new potential case can be tested). And just wait for such a Supa Dupa Central Mega Pan-National Gov decision, applied everywhere, which will prove to be an error... Centralization and transport are sure ways to enforce the pandemics. We may be reckoning that high population density and centralized power not only aren't usefully efficient because the efficiency gain they induce is mainly used to produce nearly-useless (at best) products, and that they are extremely dangerous. We may, instead, appeal to moar of all this.