the social cost is unacceptable. And because it's unacceptable, the stopping of it requires radically pruning the network. And radically pruning the network has two parts. One is the local part because people are strongly connected to each other locally. And one is the long range part that got us in trouble because we connected communities around the world and now we're vulnerable to the outbreak. So if you cut the long range links aggressively, then you can work on killing the outbreak locally by isolating people. This is what was done in China and in South Korea in order to stop it by locking down communities, which basically means having people stay at home so that they can infect each other. But once you do that, you can really smash the outbreak because people don't transmit. So you know you have a solution. You just have to aggressively do it and China did it. They cut transportation around the country and they locked down the area of Wuhan, the Hubei province, in order to (14/41)
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