I stumbled over the word because there wasn’t a definition of the term earlier. I inferred that $1 trio is 1 trillion US dollars.
Is that what you intended?
General theme of the post
Similar sentiments have been shared in the widely-read book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. The 1994 book guessed that politicians would ignore the topic until it was horribly unavoidable and actively making them drop dead with blood gushing everywhere. I don’t recall the exact quote, unfortunately.
Actions
For those who have lost hope in the higher levels of government, consider trying to influence the lower levels of government where you vote is most influential. Many actions don’t require “big government”. VaccinateCA started with a few volunteers, which is well within the number of people that exist in the department of a city or county government. Monitoring the wastewater in your local sewage plant may not require the water department to get permission from anyone outside the sewage plant’s walls. Counting the number of patients with respiratory symptoms can be done with piles of rocks regardless of heap size. And so on.
I stumbled over the word because there wasn’t a definition of the term earlier. I inferred that $1 trio is 1 trillion US dollars.
Is that what you intended?
Similar sentiments have been shared in the widely-read book The Hot Zone by Richard Preston. The 1994 book guessed that politicians would ignore the topic until it was horribly unavoidable and actively making them drop dead with blood gushing everywhere. I don’t recall the exact quote, unfortunately.
For those who have lost hope in the higher levels of government, consider trying to influence the lower levels of government where you vote is most influential. Many actions don’t require “big government”. VaccinateCA started with a few volunteers, which is well within the number of people that exist in the department of a city or county government. Monitoring the wastewater in your local sewage plant may not require the water department to get permission from anyone outside the sewage plant’s walls. Counting the number of patients with respiratory symptoms can be done with piles of rocks regardless of heap size. And so on.
Yep, I intended that to mean “trillion”.
I’ve never seen these abbreviations “mio., bio. trio.” before. I have always only seen M, B, T, e.g. $5B. Is it some regionalism or something?
Yup, it’s a regionalism that I mis-/over-generalized. I’ll avoid it from now on.
For completeness, I’ve also seen mil., bil. and tril. - but never with o at the end.