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2020-04-03 d (update - re-written in response to reader comment)
Viral News - If geeks ruled a world with no civil liberties:

Steps to consider in case of a genuine pandemic with at least ten times the fatalities of seasonal influenza:

However as rationalists we should be asking which actions have the highest expected utility, not which actions have some positive utility. In an exponentially growing process, the actions with the highest expected utility are those actions which intervene early in the process, and actions like drafting medical students which intervene late in the process when the disease has already grown to a huge size are "nice to have" but by that point most of the damage has been done.

Now however, we have an over-reaction to a pathogen with less than one tenth the fatalities of seasonal influenza.

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