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Special Episode: Engineering the Apocalypse
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Can We Afford a World Wide Sentinel System?
If a patient has one of the area's top priority diseases, parties pects that they'll be able to identify it within an hour. So could we afford a world wide sentinel system? I've seen the programms budget, and while it's confidential, i can say it's absolutely in the reach of any developed country and any less developed country with just a little bit of outside financial help. In the us, adjusting for cost of living factors and population size, i estimate it would cost in the low billions per year. This is a trifling sum just compared to what we lose to the flue every year, let alone a pandemic like covit. And it's
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