Thread by @davidrosenthal

1/ Centuries from now, when history books are written, what will they write about this era? photo from 1918 Spanish flu ward. #COVID19 #CoronaVirus #COVID2019 #COVIDー19 #COVID

2/ Will it be about the cold war, the fall of the Berlin wall? the Soviet Union? Decreasing poverty worldwide? Bill Gates and Steve Jobs? The Creation of the Internet? 9/11? President Trump or President Obama? Syria? The genetic revolution? The opioid epidemic?

Likely not.

3/ Unfortunately most of this will be drowned out. What will matter is #COVID19 and how we as a world responded to it.

4/ Estimates right now point that the pandemic #COVID19 coronavirus could infect an estimated 25-50% of the world and kill millions of people worldwide.

nytimes.com/2020/03/13/us/…

Think about that. How will history remember this?

5/ Unfortunately, as most pandemics do, they disproportionately affected the most vulnerable, the old, the infirm, the sick, and the poor around the world with limited access to advanced medical care, clean sanitation, and abilities to quarantine to less dense population areas.

6/ We can learn lessons from Dr. Bernard Rieux in Camus’ 1947 La Peste.

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8/ I ask all who are reading, what is your sense of history? What is your mission? Do you want a place in history? Where can you help? What skills do you have?

9/ What will your contribution be? Will you play DEFENSE to fight this disease (e.g. service workers: healthcare/food delivery/visiting nursing/supply chain/police/national guard to protect order)?

10/ Will you play OFFENSE (e.g. product builders: testing/diagnostics manufacturing, pharmaceutical/vaccine development, manufacturing of respirators/masks/other essential supplies?)

11/ If not on DEFENSE and not on OFFENSE. Will you please be altruistic and #stayhome to limit the spread of the disease? To #FlattenTheCurve and allow our DEFENSE to catch up and OFFENSE to mobilize an attack?

medium.com/@ariadnelabs/s…

12/ “The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.” -Sun Tzu

13/ Fin. #COVID19 #CoronaVirus #COVID2019 #COVIDー19 #COVID

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