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The entire world is going on with it this time because the cost-benefit analysis is quite trivial. The entire world also doesn't go with it every few years to stop the flu because the cost-benefit analysis is quite trivial.

There has got to be something in between, but on the land of exponential growth and slow-down, that line is very thin. This one pandemic will cross the line at some point, but I bet we will resume business as usual even before that.




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