OT: Coronavirus

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Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????

I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz

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Fascinating (and hopeful) story on 60 Minutes Sunday evening...

The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreakOn New Year's Eve, a small company in Canada was among the first to raise the alarm about an infectious disease outbreak. Its computer algorithm calculated where the virus might spread next. The technology could change the way we fight another contagion.When you're fighting a pandemic, almost nothing matters more than speed. A little-known band of doctors and hi-tech wizards say they were able to find the vital speed needed to attack the coronavirus: the computing power of artificial intelligence. 
They call their new weapon "outbreak science." It could change the way we fight another contagion. 
Already it has led to calls for an overhaul of how the federal government does things. But first, we'll take you inside BlueDot, a small Canadian company with an algorithm that scours the world for outbreaks of infectious disease. It's a digital early warning system, and it was among the first to raise alarms about this lethal outbreak.
It was New Year's Eve when BlueDot's computer spat out an alert: a Chinese business paper had just reported 27 cases of a mysterious flu-like disease in Wuhan, a city of 11 million. The signs were ominous. Seven people were already in hospitals.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus...elligence/

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@purplefaithful said:
Fascinating (and hopeful) story on 60 Minutes Sunday evening...

The computer algorithm that was among the first to detect the coronavirus outbreakOn New Year's Eve, a small company in Canada was among the first to raise the alarm about an infectious disease outbreak. Its computer algorithm calculated where the virus might spread next. The technology could change the way we fight another contagion.

When you're fighting a pandemic, almost nothing matters more than speed. A little-known band of doctors and hi-tech wizards say they were able to find the vital speed needed to attack the coronavirus: the computing power of artificial intelligence. 
They call their new weapon "outbreak science." It could change the way we fight another contagion. 
Already it has led to calls for an overhaul of how the federal government does things. But first, we'll take you inside BlueDot, a small Canadian company with an algorithm that scours the world for outbreaks of infectious disease. It's a digital early warning system, and it was among the first to raise alarms about this lethal outbreak.
It was New Year's Eve when BlueDot's computer spat out an alert: a Chinese business paper had just reported 27 cases of a mysterious flu-like disease in Wuhan, a city of 11 million. The signs were ominous. Seven people were already in hospitals.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/coronavirus...elligence/

Gavin Newsom: It's just incumbent upon us to have a national lens. And to recognize we're
many parts but one body. And if one part suffers, we all suffer.
Bill Whitaker: From this experience, do you think the Federal Government needs to overhaul the way it tackles pandemics?
Gavin Newsom: I don't know that there's a human being out there, maybe one or two, that would suggest otherwise. No, the absolute answer is, of course, unequivocally.
Dylan George: We need to have professionals that their day job is dedicated to helping us understand how infectious diseases will-- will risk our well being economically and from a national security perspective.
Bill Whitaker: That idea has been kicking around for a while. It's never gotten the funding. Do you think things will be different this time?
Dylan George: When we see that there is $2 trillion being spent on stimulus bills to help us get out of this, to make sure that we can rebound, we need to think transformatively. We need to think broadly about how we can move these things forward. This kind of a center would help us do that.


Exactly. It's the same with foreign aid. Colin Powell was one of the first to recognize that the money you spend in aiding impoverished nations is a tiny fraction of what it will cost in the future when those nations become breeding grounds for terror. 

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Gavin Newsome really embraced this technology and the insights from it are driving CA's strategy and tactic. And lets keep in mind that LA, SF and NY are major destinations for those from the land of China Virus.

Major applause to him for being so forward thinking and open-minded...This is the kind of information he embraced to truly lead the shut-down show in America in our most populous state. 

This is so much more than picking-up on news stories around the globe. Its truly transformative and leverages all that rich data - and makes it more insightful connecting all those dots..

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@purplefaithful said:
Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????

I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz

I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money. 

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Surprise...
https://twitter.com/AndrewFeinberg/statu...1153271810

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@RS Express said:

@purplefaithful said:
Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????

I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz

I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money. 

you werent going to but then you did... WTF?

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@JimmyinSD said:

@RS Express said:

@purplefaithful said:
Why is that $$ going to such large entities as The Lakers????

I realize everyone is burning through cash (i.e. Ford $165mm a day!) but that is for small biz

I'd answer that but then I'd get in trouble for "getting political" because it was 1 party that forced a provision into the bill that let the big corporations get "small business" money. 

you werent going to but then you did... WTF?

That was a pretty benign comment from RS, Jimmy.  The pandemic and our response to it is wrapped up in politics. You can't separate the two. 

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Collateral damage from COVID/19  :/

https://twitter.com/DrDenaGrayson/status...4563206144