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Byrne Hobart: Over- and Under-Correction in Tech

From the New World

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The Effects of State Capacity on COVID

The best thing that government did was roll back the reach of the FDA for operation and then it was to like do less stuff. Almost everything else was just like an unmitigated disaster right like banning coven tests. I think there are different categories of scenarios and so like you can imagine. If you imagine a US government with the state capacity of Singapore where in January of 2020 the regular meetings that the president has been having to discuss the spread of the novel coronavirus they, they conclude that a travel ban would be a good idea.

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