Revolution 2.0

Introduction In the new corona world, Americans are beginning to ask how to balance lives vs. living and livelihood. After all, we accept that we must balance that equation elsewhere–why not with the coronavirus? If we wanted to reduce the annual slaughter on our highways, 37K died in 2018, we would take the max highway speed back limit to 55 mph. With 30% of those deaths alcohol related, we could make the penalty for the first DUI a year’s license suspension, and the second a lifetime forfeiture. But we don’t. Cars killed 740 bicyclists that year, but bike lanes with barriers are virtually nonexistent. As a society, we frequently balance cost and convenience vs. lives.  Remember concepts like “No man is an island.” and Six Degrees of Separation? Where do we draw the line between threatening the lives of others, and living the life we want? That is the subject of today’s 10-minute episode.  Continuing We do indeed make frequent and constant trade offs between cost and convenience on one hand, and