Comment by aslilac
5 hours ago
imagine if we just turned off 90% of the non-critical internet for two weeks, hardened up in an absolute mad dash where everyone has access to top tier cyber models, and then afterwards we go back to business as usual. it’d be a disaster short-term but long-term would it be worse than the years of slow drip we’re about to go through? idk! I kinda think it’d be interesting to find out!
Imagine if everyone had just stayed at home for a week in 2020.
It'd take more than a week, but even now, if the whole world coordinated a simultaneous quarantine, we'd eliminate covid, the flu, the common cold, and a thousand nameless respiratory cruds.
No we wouldn't, most of those viruses infect other animals as well, and would just start reinfecting humans.
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Everyone would be very difficult. You'd still need some people to make sure essential services are still functioning, and that still involves quite a large number of people.
That was my first thought as well. With COVID, we recognised that WFH was viable for white collar work. Perhaps a global 2 week cleanse will allow everyone to re-evaluate life priorities outside of the internet.
I see hope in what happened during the blackout in Spain/Portugal.
what happened there ?
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