3 common sense apolitical changes America could make to increase happiness and efficiency not only in the US but globally:
1. Holidays
A. Move Thanksgiving to a Friday or make Black Friday a holiday. It's too disruptive to have Thanksgiving happen midweek.
B. For the same reason, make Christmas Day to New Years Day a week-long holiday.
C. Get rid of Columbus Day. Discovering America (the 2nd time) was badass but we have too many holidays in Q4 and we need to compensate for the holidays we're getting rid of.
D. Get rid of President's Day. Same thing.
E. Celebrate Halloween on the last Saturday in October so kids can trick-or-treat and do their homework.
F. Move MLK, Veteran's and July 4th (indepedence day) so they always fall on Mondays and so we have holidays throughout the year.
You get the idea.
Stop having disruptive holidays midweek, give us some rest at the end of the year, and spread those holidays out through the year.
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2. Daylights Savings Time
We're going to stop doing this nonsense and have summer hours year round. Even in southern Texas, it's dark at 5 PM so you can't do anything after work. It's stupid and makes it hard to work internationally.
Speaking of which...
3. Metric system
It's time we drop the standard system. It's hard to work with, metric system is easier, and our systems make it super hard for foreigners to work with Americans because we have these crazy 1/16th of inch measurements. So much time is wasted on this globally.
For the last 70 years America has gotten used to the world conforming to our rules and peculiarities. That's changing, and we need to change with it.
These changes will be 1-3 years of headaches but are like 1 step back and 3 steps forward, not only for us but the world.
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3. China didn't do as good of a job warning the world as they could have for the same reason why everyone locks down too late, it's hard to kill your own economy for something that might not happen. 4. The incentive to investigate is not there because US and China, two
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biggest economies and most powerful countries in the world internationally jointly fucked up, so people within government are worried about their own careers investigating because of blowback from other parts of gov't, even though its right thing to do.
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This is an insightful and afaik novel covid observation.
Your risk of getting covid is not determined by cases at the country level, nor even at the city level, but instead the cases prevailing in the subgroups you’re a member of.
many cases are tearing through your city. It matters how many are at your office, your kid’s school, or your place of worship.
And because most people don’t work two jobs, kids don’t attend two schools, and people don’t worship at two different churches, these groups
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are poorly connected, which can explain why you see these random waves in a city that aren’t explained by weather or behavioral changes. That wave was just everyone who partied, or all the Christians, or high schoolers.