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If you want to be cool then you say "fuck the government, fuck the police". Its a big part of the reason, a lot of people want to show off by breaking rules for street cred.
Your overthinking it, imagining that a large part of the population wants to be Jason Bourne. It doesn't matter if 1% will evade this (you and your friends).
But you show exactly the bigger problem: the West is so individualistic, that it will rather have millions of deaths and economic collapse than a bit of privacy infringement over a number of months, again, everybody viewing himself as some sort of secret agent that the government is out to get at all costs.
Asian countries on the other hand understand that some time you need to make some real sacrifices yourself for the greater good.
Not a doctor, but I did a crash course in ventilators recently and it has the main features - inspiration/expiration pressure, volume, rate, oxygen %.
UK gov also put out a document with the MVP for a ventilator, and the Tesla one looks like it will cover most of the therapeutic features.
The one thing I would worry about is software bugs in such a rushed project.
Its an important thing to know.
We have recent data from Wuhan.
We have old data from 1918.
This is a white swan, not a black one.
More importantly, the mortality, while much higher than flu, it's still relatively low.
Now imagine a virus as contagious as this one, but with 10% mortality over all age groups. That would be unprecedented and probably cause society meltdown.
Normal cells also use RNA during protein synthesis. Why doesn't remdesivir disrupt that too and kills healthy cells?
I suspect this is to deter Russians from coming home for the Orthodox Easter which is way more important than in the West.
It does sound silly if the food is left to rot on fields.
Maybe we should also subsidize food transportation and storage or something.
How does one isolate a specific antibody from the blood? Presumably there are thousands (millions?) of different ones in there for all kinds of pathogens.
I'm ok with Google having this data. I'm not ok with governments having it.
A seed is way more alive than a virus. It only needs very simple things.
People also die now for example because of a heart attack that cant be treated due to overwhelmed hospitals. Not saying that is the case for the numbers, I dont know.
In London someone died of malaria last week because it took 9 hours for an ambulance to show up.