I was mistaking this for a genuine analysis of what was possible, not a hand waving experiment in impossibility. But since it’s the latter, can I have a pony too?
Measuring the situation against an implausibly analyzed alternate scenario is not useful.
I’m with Sjlver. There’s a lot of hand waving past problems in the happy timeline: eg, how long does it take to train new regulators who are going to work weekends? How quickly do trained regulators working constant overtime burn out? What happens when the Chinese government denies that the genome released early is the right one?
(Also, the invocation of “war time” as a model assumes that wars are run any more efficiently or even urgently. They’re not.)
Oo, I like that one.