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Yes indeed, I reckon what Humanity is doing right now is winning our biggest ever war yet(1). We shut down huge tracts of human life and attendant economies to

• redis_mlc 5y ago
  > Yes indeed, I reckon what Humanity is doing right now is winning our biggest ever war yet(1). I study WW2, and just off the top of my head, the Manhattan, B-29 and V-2 projects took longer and cost around $2 billion each in 1945 dollars. The economies involved spent over 50% of GDP on war materiel. So no, corona wasn't even the biggest war project. > We shut down huge tracts of human life and attendant economies to save the lives of the oldest and weakest. We're still doing it. I'm not sure it was a good tradeoff, and I would say there wouldn't have been a lockdown if there was enough ICU capacity, which BTW didn't seem to increase in the past year (China built new hospital buildings, but I don't know if they were equipped.) I would argue that corona was the first smartphone pandemic, which pushed control down from the federal govt. to state govt. and individuals, causing sensationalism and distraction (ie. "do masks work or not?", "omg the number of patients increases every day!", "how is this going to affect my White House run (Newsom)", etc.) > mRNA is bigger than a bomb, and fully peer reviewed. WW2 arms were amply demonstrated.