Episode 18: Coronavirus part 2 or why Nassim Taleb is wrong.

The Mindcrimeliberty show revisits the topic of our very first episode: the corona-virus pandemic and the policies various states have enacted.  We discuss Nassim Taleb's and others work on the pandemic and update our earlier take on the pandemic.  Taleb  has consistently held the same alarmist position even when it was unpopular to do so unlike the mainstream.  Taleb praised Trump for closing the border of the US with China which the then "anti alarmist" mainstream criticized.  The biggest problem we have with corona-virus measures in particular stemming from Taleb's precautionary principle is if true they prove too much.  The measures the state is suggesting are merely band aids at best and at worst have no effect. What the state is asking the population to do we think is akin to the duck and cover drills which is more about calming panic which they the state created over a virus which hasn't been as deadly as the various models in particular the imperial model predicted.