02-13-2021, 08:08 PM
I think it also shows how technology is useless without the social institutions to back it up. In various countries tens, if not hundreds of thousands of people have died who didn't need to. Millions of people have lost loved ones in spite of the technology being there to keep them alive. South Korea doesn't have any better technology than Italy, France, the UK, or the US. Yet its excellent track-and-trace and mass testing system meant that it was able to keep deaths low and avoid lock downs.
There's also the worrying problem that our increased communication technology and infrastructure has massively increased the ability of misinformation to spread, as well as allowing for the mass collection of data that makes creating targeted misinformation easier. I have a hard time imagining that in the 90s so many people would have thought that the virus was a hoax, and anti-vaxx groups were nowhere near as large.
What should happen is a full inquiry of everything that went wrong, everything that could have been better, and a thorough comparison of why countries that had all the means to avoid such high death counts failed to do so.
There's also the worrying problem that our increased communication technology and infrastructure has massively increased the ability of misinformation to spread, as well as allowing for the mass collection of data that makes creating targeted misinformation easier. I have a hard time imagining that in the 90s so many people would have thought that the virus was a hoax, and anti-vaxx groups were nowhere near as large.
What should happen is a full inquiry of everything that went wrong, everything that could have been better, and a thorough comparison of why countries that had all the means to avoid such high death counts failed to do so.
OA Wish list:
- DNI
- Internal medical system
- A dormbot, because domestic chores suck!