Variolation
Epidemiologists and virologists have literally dedicated their lives to effectively containing and dealing with infectious agents. Other medical doctors have focused at least a decade of intense study on the human body and the processes by which human life perpetuates and ends.<p>But by all means, let&#x27;s all presume that an economist like Robin Hanson—whose primary interest it would seem to be opening up commerce during a pandemic—has somehow come up with an idea that has escaped the notice of that entire segment of the population dedicated to human health.<p>Let&#x27;s ask Mike Pence about his thoughts on the use of bloom filters as relational database indexes while we&#x27;re at it. I&#x27;m sure he&#x27;ll point out that mauve seems to have the most RAM.<p>Sure, experts can have blind spots, but c&#x27;mon!