Matrix Report
Lex Fridman:
– Wearing a mask does help stop the spread of the virus because if you have COVID-19 but don’t know it yet, it prevents you from spreading it to others.
– “Me wearing a mask says I care about not getting you sick, it’s a really powerful social signal”
– Everyone should wear masks, physically distance themselves from others, maintain a healthy immune system: exercise, sleep, take vitamin C and D.
– If you have access to a sauna, use it–if not, take hot-cold showers .
Lex Fridman is a research scientist at MIT working on developing deep learning approaches to human sensing, scene understanding, and planning in human-AI interaction paradigms including robotics, crowdsourced human-in-the-loop supervision, and simulated environments.
Scott Galloway:
– “If we were to all successfully distance 6 feet for 14 days, you’d likely put a stake through the heart of this thing”
– If you don’t socially distance, you’re not only putting yourself at risk but also others at risk.
Scott’s predictions for the new normal:
– About 70-80% of retail stores will close.
– Grocery deliveries will grow by 10-15% over the next few years.
– Remote work is going to rise and it will be normal for workers to work from home 2-3 days a week.
– The office space business will decline.
– Healthcare will become more remote and prescriptions will be delivered to your home.
Scott Galloway is a professor of marketing at the New York University Stern School of Business, and a public speaker, author, and entrepreneur.
Michael Osterholm:
– The virus found in a throat swab of people showing the very early signs of COVID-19 found that the virus level was 1000 times of what they see with SARS. So even if a person isn’t coughing or sneezing, the higher volume of the virus in the throat means that the virus could be spread just by breathing and pushing out aerosols.
– Factors that increase the chance of death from contracting the coronavirus: smoking, hypertension, renal disease, and obesity
– Some good news: After you recover from COVID-19, you might be immune from getting or spreading it.
– A study showed that macaque monkeys could not get re-infected after they recovered from the virus
Michael T. Osterholm is an American infectious disease epidemiologist, regents professor, and director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota.
Peter Hotez:
– The worst is yet to come: “We’re not even at the peak yet and another 2 weeks of this is going to continue to go up”
– Social distancing is absolutely paramount
– Keeping yourself healthy could make the difference between life or death
Peter Jay Hotez is an American scientist, pediatrician, and advocate in the fields of global health, vaccinology, and neglected tropical disease control.
Ryan Holiday:
– Where I think philosophy really comes in, what it’s actually about is emerging from this better and stronger… The worst thing we could do to those people ‘that will die from this’ would be to emerge from this and essentially learn nothing, to go back to business as usual.
Ryan Holiday is an American author, marketer, entrepreneur and founder of the creative advisory firm Brass Check. He is a media strategist, the former director of marketing for American Apparel and a media columnist and editor-at-large for the New York Observer.
Hopefully things will bottom out by June. The best thing we can do right now is social distancing–especially if you live in a city. Don’t smoke, vape, stay fit, limit alcohol intake.
