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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Bonus tweet: Fauci was deified by the media. He's a powerful guy. Besides all of his terrible advice throughout the pandemic, it looks like he knew what was going on. Takes balls to go up against this guy.
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Just had a powerful insight. Let me type this bad boy off hot off the presses. Bear (bare?) with me.
I’ve intuitively always found private equity offensive. It just disgusts me. Okay. Why? It’s intuitive so I had to think about it. Stay tuned for the insight…
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1. Thé PE boys make a ton of money 2. I don’t actually get the impression that they’re skilled (eg they make big returns trading assets between themselves, don’t innovAte, don’t create value) but they think they are
So these guys are not good but crank out money.
How?
What’s my intuition on that?
This is going to sound stupid but, it’s the fed.
This makes me sound like a some sort of angry man incomprehensible shaking an angry fist at somehting I can’t control but I actually think it’s the fed.
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.
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.