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To: elmatador who wrote (4909)	3/22/2020 1:51:29 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13801

This experience is probably eye-opening for most Americans who have literally no clue where food comes from. At the grocery stores in Los Angeles we have obscene huge surpluses of fresh produce and meat and dairy at very cheap prices, a lot of it probably going to waste. California normally exports food, entertainment and software and only the entertainment and software is getting out to other states and the world. One Ralph's had a twenty foot long section of huge ripe strawberries for 50 cents for a double carton. They're grown here in California and normally flown to customers around the US and around the world. But due to the economic chaos we get them all and most of them will rot before they're sold. Each store has a huge surplus of something different. Only medical supplies are in short supply in Los Angeles, while the rest of the US is now living with communist style spot food shortages. We fortunately already had respirators to wear while doing art work, but for everyone else they're unobtainable. We ate ourselves sick with artichokes and freshly made pasta with strawberry shortcake, then last night filet mignon tacos. Of course the hamster buyers are probably still inexplicably looking for bottled water at Walmarts or Costco and probably still disappointed. Why in Gods's name do they want bottled water it in the first place ? ? ? Pellegrino and brewed TeJava is sill in ample supply. They're not so interested in those items. Oh yes, 9 volt lithium batteries I had to order on Amazon as local stores are out for some reason. Maybe TV remotes are being too heavily used. If I didn't like cooking I'd probably be incredibly bored. There's only so much entertainment I can stand. I can't swim laps but we'll take walks through empty neighborhoods for a little exercise wearing our 3M respirators.

To: elmatador who wrote (4909)	3/22/2020 2:03:10 PM
From: Joseph Silent	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 13801

People who work on algorithms for "hard" problems have always understood scale. You can handle a computational problem in 1 hour or 1 day or 1 week and may consider those times reasonable in our life span. But we don't want to contemplate using those same algorithms on a larger version of a "hard" problem because it may require 10 years, or 100 years ..... and that makes no sense in our life span. So, when you look at 2 beds or 200 beds or 2000 beds or 20000 beds per 10 million or 100 million ..... you already know that these numbers only make sense if you keep the sick count below a critical threshold. Above it and you are on life-support. Only clever leaders, anticipation and planning can keep you far from that point. Hugging flags is not a solution to this problem. In fact it's not a solution to any kind of problem I know. So, when you are given all the resources in the world, and all the time in the world, it helps to identify the top five problems that can cut you off at the knees and address them. One of these would be a pandemic. Instead we went into tariffs and trade. Year after year of fluff and bluff and bluster. At what cost? For what profit? It seems to me that approach takes last year's issue and turns it into a problem. Instead we should have been taking next year's problem an turning it into an issue. A problem, like the prevention of a pandemic, is one you work to solve. You do this when you have plenty of time. An issue, like trade, is something you work out collectively while solving a real problem.