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There is no public in the global market
- quantified 4y agoI don't see that the failure to contain Covid had anything to so with a market outlook. Rather, too many people refused to behave in ways that would slow the spread. Governments didn't do obvious things like focus testing early on the most at-risk and most-necessary people, from lack of overall competence. 100 years ago they might well have been just as incompetent. The vaccines were developed from a market outlook, in fact. Though they could have been developed under any outlook. Government, tribes and markets have coexisted for a long time. (Let's put religions in the tribal bucket too). The main thing different about the digital/electronic communication is the fostering of tribes that are physically dispersed. Exhorting these tribes to behave for the common good is more like a religion, it seems.