“I'm not sure there is an acceptable solution to the problem we are facing”
Some solutions that already exist, are already in use and could be firmed up:<p>1. Working from home.<p>2. Ordering online and getting takeout.<p>3. Using self checkout.<p>4. Collaboration and socialization via phone and internet.<p>You can&#x27;t get sick if you aren&#x27;t exposed. People don&#x27;t get sick due to some random number generator. You have to have a vector.<p>We already know a great many ways to disrupt the spread. The antidote to a global crisis is not a global solution. It&#x27;s a local solution.<p>When Ebola was initially a problem, the epidemic was stopped by African tribal elders, not advanced Western medicine. They told their people &quot;Don&#x27;t go to the white man&#x27;s hospital&quot; because you would go for something fixable, like a broken leg, and die of Ebola.<p>They blockaded the roads and stopped letting outsiders in. They quarantined those who were infected and left food on the doorstep to take care of them.<p>If the food stopped disappearing, they burned the hut down.<p>We know a lot about how to stop this. What we currently lack is some means to get people to do all the basic stuff we already know works, like wash your hands, stop touching your face and don&#x27;t lick your fingers to separate bags.<p>I&#x27;m disappointed in seeing this handwringing, angsting piece at number one. It&#x27;s not really factual. It&#x27;s someone being emotional.<p>It isn&#x27;t 1918. We have vastly better technology and information these days.<p>We just have to deploy it and leverage it. This is mostly about shaping culture. The primary question is &quot;How do you get people to voluntarily comply instead of blowing it off as usual?&quot;