Don’t know if this question is very odd, or if someone might perhaps have the same problem.
I like to write in Google Docs and I like to write in many, many documents at the same time.
Is there some tool, extension, etc that allows me to find and access many active Google Docs?
In the last months I “organized” that by relying on different tabs.
All the Google Docs in which I’m writing or in which I’m editing work of others would be in tabs – and via Tab Suspender they would be suspended, so as soon as I clicked on the relevant tab they became active.
A nice solution would be if there was for example an extension that would allow me to put together a kind of home page – perhaps a simple grid with all the links to the relevant Google Docs – and as soon as I click on one of them it’d open quickly.
At docs.google.com/document there is this grid view – but it can’t be organized as far as I know.
It’s ordered by name or date.
It’d be nice to have this, but with the possibility to ‘curate’ my own list. A list of the 20 Google Docs that I need this week for example.
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I agree with the goal of a “people’s vaccine” – we need vaccines for the entire world.
But I don’t see how these proposals would get us there.
It seems to me that our global situation is very much worse than these proposals assume.
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The various "people’s vaccine" proposals want to get rid of intellectual property restrictions for the COVID vaccines so that more vaccines can be produced.
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In the past there were such horrible situations in which patent restrictions prevented the world from making progress against diseases.
(For example the patent restrictions on ART that meant that HIV-positive people in poor countries could not get the treatment they needed).
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The good news: “even at this late stage, investment to expand manufacturing capacity would have large benefits.”
The frustrating finding “investing in the amount of capacity recommended by our model (as of August 2020) would have allowed ... the world to complete vaccination by October 2021 rather than June 2022.”
(The benefits would have been $1.14 trillion. Obvs much higher than costs.)
One of the key points to understand in the question of to get the world vaccinated is that the the social value of more vaccines far exceeds the commercial returns to vaccine the manufacturers from installing capacity.
Let’s assume that the cost estimates of that study are much too optimistic and the true cost of producing the vaccine will be $200 billion in the end – it would still be less than the economic losses in just *month* last year.
That’s just the loss in production (4.5% decline of global GDP according to the IMF: imf.org/external/datam…).
The full ‘cost’ of the pandemic is of course much larger than that – the pandemic’s impact on our daily lives, people being sick, people dying.
The point is:
estimate of the pandemic’s cost that is much too low >> estimate of the cost to produce vaccines that is much higher than what this study estimates
This study estimates the cost to produce the missing vaccines to protect *the entire world* from COVID. mdpi.com/2076-393X/9/1/…
Facilities to produce 16 billion doses of a Moderna type vaccines would only cost around $4 billion, ~$2 a jab.
Easily the best deal of the decade.
If this is even remotely true it is unbelievably exciting news. 10- or 100-times that price would be cheap.
This important article outlines a plan for how to pull it off (it's based on the paper above). nytimes.com/2021/01/12/opi…
Here is a perspective on the $4 billion price tag.
For the total cost of the entire production operation of this vaccine this is the relevant table – and the Moderna type vaccine is the one on the left.
CapEx = total capital investment cost
OpEx = annual operating cost
It was wrong to believe that 'saving the economy' was an alternative to 'saving people's lives’.
If anything it is the other way around and the two goals go together so that countries that kept the health impact of the pandemic lower suffered smaller economic consequences.
This isn’t a new insight, it’s just more up to date data.
It was obvious early on in the pandemic and has been said by many economists for months.