Yes, this has occurred to me, as well, in regards to the current crisis.
I think that I figured it out. All the investment class has to do, is
1) suggest some best practices for how editors of key publications demand their writers follow during the crisis.
2) Then, you whisper in the ears of the politicians that they need to make laws about how everyone who enters the hospital needs to be tested for the virus in question.
Then, they can just sit back and watch the fireworks as miscommunications happen between the hospitals and the journalists.
A lot of people have been able to make heaps of cash, through investments in the pharmaceutical companies, because of the insinuation that there can be no other solutions, except these 18th and 19th century style quarantines. Someone is painstakingly lying to the politicians. The science of biology regarding understanding the human immune system is extremely detailed these days. They even understand granularly how atoms are structured in patterns.Here is an example of a lecture about this.
The sheer defensiveness of the man giving the lecture really jumps out at me. There has to be a reason for that. 17 minutes is a long time to hold a scowl.
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POST SCRIPT:
Within hours of posting this, apparently the state of Colorado decided to clarify the issue.
Shucks!
It's amazing how something that has guided public policy for eighteen months suddenly gets exposed a little after 11pm last night.
Wow... food for thought.
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