[lkrubner]

"ready for the level of risk in the COVID response as a routine thing"

Are patients ready for that level of risk? Are children ready for that level of risk? Outside of emergencies, does anything justify that level of risk?

"We see the strategies that work in Asia and maybe eventually in Africa - if you let capitalism happen it has powerful enough results"

So Asia is capitalist? But other countries are not capitalist? This sentence seems to imply that America is not capitalist but Asia is capitalist. I've seen this kind of writing before. Without a rigorous definition of "capitalism" then this kind of thing quickly becomes "capitalism is all the stuff that I agree with and socialism is all the stuff that I disagree with."

"if you let capitalism happen it has powerful enough results at a such speed vs. central planning that it can be rightly called a miracle"

This suggests that capitalism is the opposite of central planning, but we could clearly design a highly decentralized version of Communism:

https://demodexio.substack.com/p/how-to-build-a-pragmatic-co...