"Harbor is a luxury 2-month retreat in California, focused on weathering the storm during the global COVID-19 pandemic." So I hate this.
(https://www.harbor.im/)
posted on March 30, 2020 07:28 PM by
u/PolyamorousNephandus
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Hoping this ends up like Fyre Festival where a bunch of techies get
scammed into cheese singles and huel at some dude’s off-season ski lodge
and also somehow everyone involved contracts the coofid and dies
anyway
Considering a lot of tech investment money is from pension funds im not at all happy with this. Esp as I assume that investment funds like those are run by bad/incompetent managers who are just going for a wide net approach.
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Why adopt robust pro-social policies like social distancing when you
can instead be rational and choose a fragile, single-failure-point
policy that also has the vast advantages of being expensive and
unbearably pretentious?
It's a hideout for Bay Area techpreneurs. Peyote will be there 100%.
Now food might be more of a 50/50. Between everyone just forgetting it among more important things like yoga balls and pinball tables, and the only option being a company cafe with $5k hamburgers and $1.5k shakes, that is.
What’s funny about all these people is that they won’t be safe from
corona. They are coming from urban places and probably brushed with
someone who has it. It takes only one to carry it in and bring the whole
bunker down.
Poor nerds with allergies, first they get tested, then they catch covid from an asymp carrier, and then they die coughing up allergy and covid inflamed lung linging (*). ;)
*: yes not how covid, allergies, etc works but it is a joke.
There is 0% chance a group of geeks will keep a perimiter. Sadly enough. The [geek social fallacies](http://www.plausiblydeniable.com/opinion/gsf.html) practically guarantee it, and there are always 'rules dont apply to me' geeks. (Sorry 'radical paradigm breaking innovation' geeks, and clearly inviting sex workers over when high doesn't count as breaking the perimiter).
In theory you could do that, but in practice it would be difficult to do it in a group like this. One of the main challenges are asymptomatic carriers — it’s not just about “trust”, it’s possible that someone can be sure that they are not sick but still carrying the virus. Forming a quarantine clique is actually pretty common, though it tends to be people you live with rather than a large group of strangers who aren’t tested and could have been exposed unknowingly.
Hoping this ends up like Fyre Festival where a bunch of techies get scammed into cheese singles and huel at some dude’s off-season ski lodge and also somehow everyone involved contracts the coofid and dies anyway
If I die to coronavirus, I give my consent for my corpse to be catapulted into that compound.
These people seem super cool. I definitely want to be stuck with them in a subdivision off the 10 freeway in Cabazon.
Never let a good crisis go to waste.
Just people trying to extract money from the wealthy, nothing new.
This could be Masque of the Red Death — either by Poe or Doctorow.
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Why adopt robust pro-social policies like social distancing when you can instead be rational and choose a fragile, single-failure-point policy that also has the vast advantages of being expensive and unbearably pretentious?
“Harbor” that isn’t in a harbor but somewhere out in the desert… the Mojave? Somewhere in Riverside County?
Sounds like a Silicon Valley episode. Will also be boring as fuck, unless someone has peyote or some shit.
What’s funny about all these people is that they won’t be safe from corona. They are coming from urban places and probably brushed with someone who has it. It takes only one to carry it in and bring the whole bunker down.
http://www.thejackestate.com/
your host: Prince Prospero
The perfect place for your antivax polycule to flee to for this crisis and when the peasants revolt!
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