Though they could certainly be more humane-what else do you do?
That is a largely obedient, homogenous, somewhat used to suffering, high IQ society.
Picture this scenario here for one moment. Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit in lockdown. Our inner cities with high time preferences? Because they feel good in that moment, they'll be out looting big screen TVs.
Imagine this had been released here, first.
In every town larger than 10K people.
In 2 weeks time there would have been tens of thousands of people just dropping dead.
Total chaos.
It doesn’t have to be ebola to be a bioweapon.
First thing that would have happened is China would have terminated all trade and travel with us. leaving us to fight this with the medical supplies we had currently on hand.
And deal with this in our military, who would certainly have been exposed.
At that point they could do whatever they liked in Asia, Europe or wherever...
Picture this scenario here for one moment. Chicago, Baltimore, Detroit in lockdown. Our inner cities with high time preferences? Because they feel good in that moment, they'll be out looting big screen TVs.
This cannot be reiterated enough. I believe there will be major riots and cries of racism as soon as any urban quarantines are imposed. Some are already trying to stir things up crying racism because of flight and cruise restrictions from China.
Who knew this dude would turn out to be smart stealing alcohol.