I like this post a lot. It’s well-written, thoughtful, well-linked and thorough. I especially like the way you’ve scoped out the different project ideas at the end of the post, and you include several classes of project that I think are important but usually left out of these sorts of lists.
It seems likely to me that this would be a very good use of money for “generalist” (non-GCBR-focused) pandemic prevention. I’d be very interested in hearing counterarguments to that.
For GCBR reduction, I’m less sure how valuable it would be to better evaluate existing NPIs, as opposed to developing (and evaluating) new and improved NPIs targeting key weak points. But I could imagine being persuaded fairly easily on this point, and would like to get other people’s takes (though perhaps not in an open forum).
I like this post a lot. It’s well-written, thoughtful, well-linked and thorough. I especially like the way you’ve scoped out the different project ideas at the end of the post, and you include several classes of project that I think are important but usually left out of these sorts of lists.
It seems likely to me that this would be a very good use of money for “generalist” (non-GCBR-focused) pandemic prevention. I’d be very interested in hearing counterarguments to that.
For GCBR reduction, I’m less sure how valuable it would be to better evaluate existing NPIs, as opposed to developing (and evaluating) new and improved NPIs targeting key weak points. But I could imagine being persuaded fairly easily on this point, and would like to get other people’s takes (though perhaps not in an open forum).
Thanks a lot for the comment. I was a bit nervous to put my first post up so some positive feedback is very much appreciated.