Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedGlen Weyl: belief
29 Apr 2020 Conversations with Tyler Glen Weyl on Fighting COVID-19 and the Role of the Academic Expert
“There are not that many places in the US that have low enough prevalence that I think that that would really succeed.”
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- Glen Weyl
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- belief
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- 29 Apr 2020
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- Conversations with Tyler
Transcript context
…It’s a big island, right? If you’re in Hawaii, it’s pretty carved up, even within Hawaii, and there’s not much mobility. I think you can certainly achieve a lot if you don’t yet have the disease in country that way. There are not that many places in the US that have low enough prevalence that I think that that would really succeed. But it would probably succeed for some localities. I just think it’s not a comprehensive strategy for most of the population centers of the US, where prevalence is already high enough that trying to treat yourself as an island is not really going to accomplish a lot. Give me a sense of the timeline of what you’re proposing. What do we get the rate of transmission down to? How quickly do we get the tests available? And then when do we reopen the economy? What’s the ticking of the clock?…
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