Is anyone using the short school day /two classes method? Given how the Finnish system works, it sounds promising.
Re susceptibility to SARS-CoV-2, I think this paper has a lot of the answer, especially for older people:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.047480v2
Agree that sending young people back first makes sense. Dr. Brenner’s recent paper may explain why older people are at more risk, and how to fix the problem:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.047480v2
LA Times article mentions the nicotinamide riboside/PARP10 connection from Brenner’s paper. Taking NR is probably important and certainly safe.https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-05-01/promises-covid-19-vaccine-therapeutics-cure
Except that in the real world, only regulations can enforce monopolies.… without force, there’s no way to stop other firms entering and providing services for less.
The current “health care” in the US has the disadvantages of both top-down control systems AND the profit motive, of course.… so again, we already have top-down enforced monopoly.
http://www.strike-the-root.com/51/walker/walker6.html
You mine in space to build in space, mostly. But removing the ecological stress of deep mining, sea mining, and processing oxides instead of pure metals is not minor.
He-3 is certainly worth shipping back to Earth (for space nuts to use to fuel He-3 mining ships, obviously).
We’ve gotten too used to politically generated stagnation, with resources burned up in phony wars and competition for corporate welfare… people in 1910, with 6% economic growth rates, were a lot more able to understand that it was time to start thinking about Tsiolovsky’s ideas.
I agree with CellBioGuy. Coincidentally I was a Cell Bio Guy… guess we were hardened by the Incubator Space Wars and their bitter aftermath ;)
Start with the truths applicable to biological aging, or you’ll never get to the rest of them.
You forgot to check the old lady for a suicide belt before helping her across the street...
Ethics is more complicated than it looks. And it’s way too complex and expensive to do much of it before you’re independently wealthy. Get on your feet first.
Nice! Thanks!
Now we can launch into the “I could fix this in ten seconds if you’d stop lamenting it for ten seconds” discussion ;)
Never did understand why that Cimmerian would hang around listening to the lamenting for hour after hour… barbarians are strange.
NAD+ boosting (NR now, keep an eye on NRH for future).
CoQ10, NAC, keep D levels up in winter.
Telomerase activation (Centella asiatica, astragalus, eventually synthetics if Sierra Sciences gets its TRAP screen funded again or if the Chinese get tired of waiting on US technology...)
NR, C, D, Zinc for SARS-CoV-2 right now, if you’re not already.
Become billionaire, move out of FDA zone, have some AAV-vector gene modifications… maybe some extra p53 copies, like the Pachyderms? Fund more work on Bowhead Whale comparative genetics. Fund a company to commercially freeze and store transplant organs, to perfect a freezing protocol (I’ve seen Alcor’s...)
Main thing we need is a country where it’s legal and economically possible to develop and sell anti-agathic technology… even a billionaire can’t substitute for the whole market.
I’d emphasize going back in logical order, e.g. people with positive antibody tests, under 30, that don’t live with old people first, and so on.
A lot of Third World people are going to die from lack of food, medicine, and the rest of poverty, while we try to keep a few people in nursing homes “alive” for another month.
I’m FOR putting MUCH more effort into actually stopping SARS and the flu, but it has to be done effectively, not just as some new excuse for bailing out Freddie and Fannie..
Let’s just save time by jumping to to the place where the AI in charge of AI Safety goes Foom and takes us back to the Stone Age “for safety” ;)
No. We should be re-assessing the idea of allowing the FDA to stop the Mayo Clinic, Co-Diagnostics, Roche, et al from producing PCR test kits during epidemics. Shutting down the Principle Of Comparative Advantage is not an option.
We should all personally re-assess our basement stockpiles, as well… going to the grocery to fight over toilet paper on the first day of the Zombie Apocalypse or some nuclear tiff, is not a reasonable plan. (My own stockpile had me on Planet Smug until I ran out of canned fruit… ;)
Agree with the Vitamin D, C, and zinc. Also take nicotinamide riboside (a B3 variant) to raise PARP10 levels. (Recent paper on this):
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.17.047480v2
And don’t forget to stagger around the neighborhood biting everyone… millions of movie fans have been waiting for this for decades.