Crisis and opportunity during coronavirus seemed cute to me at the time, and now I feel like an idiot for not realizing it more. My point here is “this post was really right in retrospect and I should’ve listened to it at the time”. This post, combined with John’s “Making Vaccine”, have led me to believe I was in a position to create large amounts of vaccine during the pandemic, at least narrowly for my community, and (more ambitiously) made very large amounts (100k+) in some country with weak regulation where I could have sold it. I’m not going to flesh out the argument here, and it’s not airtight, but it was really bad that I didn’t seriously consider this until 2021, or other projects at this level of ambitiou. The post was also out very early (March 12th) which I appreciate. I give this a +4.
Crisis and opportunity during coronavirus seemed cute to me at the time, and now I feel like an idiot for not realizing it more. My point here is “this post was really right in retrospect and I should’ve listened to it at the time”. This post, combined with John’s “Making Vaccine”, have led me to believe I was in a position to create large amounts of vaccine during the pandemic, at least narrowly for my community, and (more ambitiously) made very large amounts (100k+) in some country with weak regulation where I could have sold it. I’m not going to flesh out the argument here, and it’s not airtight, but it was really bad that I didn’t seriously consider this until 2021, or other projects at this level of ambitiou. The post was also out very early (March 12th) which I appreciate. I give this a +4.
(This review is taken from my post Ben Pace’s Controversial Picks for the 2020 Review.)