IlyaMoroshkin

More young healthy people in the Netherlands have died from Sea Foam than from COVID-19.

If you are a healthy adult, COVID-19 is barely more lethal than the Flu, so what is the concern here?

UBI is only sustainable if those who elect to receive it cannot vote or have children. Otherwise they will continually vote for greater payments, and have an excess of children, and the UBI population will eventually subsume the productive population.

Instead of UBI we should guarantee housing (ie. by building it) and also targeting a fixed population maximum, by restricting immigration, which will also reduce housing prices and increase wages.

If your objective is to engender low-level conflict that will justify billions of military dollars for decades, destabilising the country and fostering insurgency is a feature, not a bug.

The decline of the USA, to the extent that there is one, is due to demographic and dysgenic changes.

This can be alleviated by fixing housing costs in the most productive cities - SF etc. - where the most intelligent and productive people congregate. Cheaper housing will encourage these people to have children instead of forgoing them.

It can also be fixed by fixing immigration, so that the most intelligent and productive can migrate, ensuring diversity (no more than 10% from any one country) and equality (no more than 50% male from any one country).

The country also needs to fix the 'welfare cliff' - where under certain conditions it is more financially rewarding to have children and not work than to do the opposite.

Because otherwise people from the biggest countries dominate the system simply due to their high population numbers, and then distort the host society and its immigration system to suit their needs. Immigration knowledge becomes monopolised.

To put it simply - Indians, when they have established themselves, hire more Indian migrants, at the expense of others. Lookup Infosys discrimination in the USA, this is established fact.

The US needs to improve its immigration system so that it can hire these smart engineers, from places like Europe in particular.

Right now, the current H1B system is totally dominated by Indians, who make up 70% of the intake. The scheme seems designed to undercut American salaries, rather than enhance American companies with highly skilled workers.

The scheme should be redesigned with a higher minimum salary, and a maximum of 10% of the intake from any one country.

And yes, the education system needs to change. Education should not be an 'export' - knowledge should be retained inside the nation, not sold off to foreign competitors. International students should only be accepted from America's closest allies.

Heck, education and immigration could just be overhauled to be NATO-only, with selected highly developed NATO partner countries as well.

With treatment so simple, we have effectively removed the healthcare system as a bottleneck on the rest of society.

I think we can safely reopen fully now and treat any serious cases using our existing healthcare systems in combination with this kind of new knowledge.

The longer we 'suppress the curve', when we are already far below hospital system capacity, the more economic and social damage we cause unnecessarily.

With the underlying factor probably being that much fewer people are creating good new content given the global lockdowns.

'Cute women' are a significant part of Instagram content, and if they are indoors wearing a mask there's not much to excite the userbase with.