New York is now giving ventilators away to Michigan and Maryland.
Remember when Andrew Cuomo was demanding 40,000 ventilators, and was told by the federal government that he wouldn't need that many?
I posted this on Twitter, and someone came back with: can you blame him for wanting to prepare for the worst?
That's not even really my point, though.
These days our new priesthood is telling those of us who are wondering how their sky-is-falling models could have been so far off, "Hey, stupidheads! Our models aren't supposed to predict reality! Quit being stupidheads and get back to waving incense before us like good peons."
Well...
PEOPLE IN CHARGE certainly were under the impression that these models were describing a likely reality, or otherwise Andrew Cuomo wouldn't have been demanding 40,000 ventilators, and virtually all states, regardless of circumstances, wouldn't have shut down. Why didn't these modelers rush to assure Cuomo and the other governors that these models weren't intended to predict reality?
Somebody I respect is even saying on Twitter that at least the models -- even if off by orders of magnitude -- got people's attention and persuaded them to take precautionary measures.
We are reduced to this.
What this whole thing has taught me:
Your reality can change at the drop of a hat.
Barely over a month ago I was in New York City having lunch with Gene Epstein and discussing my future travel plans. Both of us just assumed it would be a matter of making my own informed decision as to whether to take certain upcoming trips. We had no idea that the world would shut down, just like that.
More than ever, we need to be prepared for the unpredictable.
And not just with toilet paper.
Be able to support yourself even if your neighbors are spying on you to see if you'll dare leave your house.
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