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Mask up.
#Masks4All starts with you masking up in your profile photo. Share your new one here.

We’ll keep trying to fix the state’s failure. But in the meantime this is the decentralized response.

cc @jeremyphoward @zeynep @BrennerSpear @speechu
Maybe someone can build a one-click app to maskify your Twitter profile photo. Drag one of a few icons into place.

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Here’s an app that will make it easy to mask up on your Twitter profile.
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Was trying to spread the mask up meme offline since February, but didn’t think to change profile photo. Fixed.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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It looks like the US response is starting to be coordinated at the state rather than national level.

Every governor could ask for a tech CTO, biotech CSO, and chief medical officer to help them coordinate software, tests/drugs/vaccines, and medical treatment respectively.
How to recruit those people from the tech/biotech sector? Many are in existing positions of responsibility that they’d find hard to abandon, especially in crisis times.

But a mechanism for doing this would start to get tech talent into decision making.
If the government is now buying equity in companies, it could just acquire relevant tech / biotech companies for fair market value. That ensures employees & customers aren’t left adrift.

Then immediately put those folks in charge of areas of expertise.
cnbc.com/2020/03/29/wha…
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Next-generation masks could be to N95s what jets are to biplanes. A massive new wearable category. Combine:

- AR
- HUD
- infrared
- internet
- 360 camera
- microphone
- computer vision, audio
- flexible display for styling
- protection vs infection, pollution, face recognition
Comes with UVC chamber and some type of antimicrobial coating for self disinfection.
If billions must wear them daily, make masks amazing. Pack with sensors like a phone to give enhanced vision, hearing, smell.

Basically, Terminator vision on everything. With earpiece you’d also get ML to analyze audio. And olfactory sensors might get you bloodhound-level smell.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
@balajis
California has the scale of a nation state.

If it’s doing better (or thinks it’s doing better) in controlling the virus than the rest of the country, it may put up quarantine borders. A green zone discouraging travel from red zones.

Like 16 other US states have already done.
Now 16 states are restricting travel.

- Alaska
- Delaware
- Florida
- Hawaii
- Kansas
- Kentucky
- Maryland
- Massachusetts
- Nevada
- North Dakota
- Oklahoma
- Rhode Island
- South Carolina
- Texas
- Vermont
- West Virginia

And a North Carolina county.
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A breakup of the EU would likely come first, but the American Devolution into 50 states may be underway.

A sci-fi scenario? Yet the reason some predicted *something* along these lines is because scale causes disalignment. It's easier to get 40M people on the same page than 320M.
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