Pandemic planners were wrong, smug, ambiguous & are unrepentant

I’ve had enough. As a PhD ex-pandemic planner I’ve been calling for local eradication in Australia with closed borders for months now while watching ‘expert’ pandemic planners treat the fortunate eradication scenario that is actually unfolding as ‘impossible’, ‘unlikely’, ‘not to be aimed for’ and even ‘misguided’ with implications it is childish. But despite all …

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Best viz of effects of social distancing in Victoria & NSW

The effects of social distancing are most systematic in Victoria where the 20-30% daily increase has dropped every day for four days and is now down to 11.6%. NSW is showing good signs too. It will take another week to see the real affects of so-called Stage II restrictions including the closing of almost all …

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Can technology save the world?

You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.Buckminster Fuller Sometimes I feel that the world has gone mad. When technologists and futurists and investors like you and me can see the solutions starring us in the face . . and nobody …

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