The Inverse to the Chinese Approach to the Pendemic

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In the case of china, that actually worked. Why is san fracisco shutting down? It's a pretty incredible story. The whole point of the test sco is that we don't have data to say, ok, we need to act now. What happened was you had all these disperate, disconnected, different folks, private companies and private citizens reacting because of twitter. But i'm not sure i want instruction my government and instruction my society around how we're best going to deal with a pendemic.

Ben and James contrast U.S. and China’s response to the coronavirus, and the choices facing society about how to handle information.

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