e somebody actually could have died from that. It's hard to know exactly what caused what in these situations. But if you were looking at it overall you know there's no doubt there were individual bad situations. But if you were to look at it overall it kind of looks like we got it done. Maybe it's still too early but it's starting to look like Team Human and Team America specifically, it's kind of starting to look like we got it done which would be spectacular.

Now of course the skeptics will say it was all a big hoax, that there was nothing to it so the reason that we did so well is that there was no problem in the first place. And we'll never be able to solve that. Those two different movies will play forever.

But here's the way I'd put it. Let's say things go the way the optimist would like them to go. We get through Saturday and we don't run out and then even though the problem is going to continue for weeks we get on top of the supply problem and we basically, give or take a few special cases, basically we just don't run out of stuff from this point on. Could it be said, if you think about yourself in the future and you're looking back at it, you're a historian, could it be said that we were unprepared?

Now your first thought is hell yes we were unprepared because we had to scramble so hard to get all these things. But let me just put this thought in your head. That would make sense if you had only one big problem. If you had one big risk you should be really prepared specifically and in the most maximal way for that one risk. But what if you live in a world in which you have untold potential risks? Everything from pandemics to asteroids to unexpected wars to EMF bombs to who knows what, revolutions, mass psychosis, global warming. You pick your emergency.

I would contend that what it means to be prepared in a world of tremendous uncertainty and a variety of dangers to which you could not possibly prepare for all of them, that what it means to be prepared is to have systems in place that are very flexible and adaptable. And when a new threat comes in which is always going to be different from the last one, your next threat is never quite like the last one. This virus isn't like the other ones exactly. So being prepared in the future might not be a case of being prepared like a goal. Like my goal is to be prepared for this thing. Because what if there are so many things and some of them you can't even imagine. You can't even think up the trouble that's coming toward you. It's just something you never saw before. In that case, and I think that does describe the future, in that case isn't your best form of preparation a tremendous ability to communicate, incredible colleges and education system to produce the kinds of scientists and researchers and doctors they need for a variety of situations?

We have these systems for governing that apparently were up to the task in terms of the fact that we knew who was in charge. Okay Mr. President. He immediately used his powers to create a team. That team used the powers of emergency and the influence of the president's office and all that, the military, everything. All of these systems. It's like systems on top of systems on top of systems. And how'd they do? Well our biggest problem is we're sort of ossified with all these regulations and red tape. If our system could not immediately self-correct and cut through the red tape when an emergency required then I would say you're not prepared.

But what if your system is so flexible at the moment there's a need? We got to get rid of all these regulations. They made sense before in a luxury time. They made sense but right now we just gotta get rid of them. If you could just slice through them which I think is what the administration did. It looked to me like the administration just sliced through regulations everywhere they saw them like a samurai.

So were we prepared to get rid of regulations? Yes. Yes we had a system in place that quite efficiently identified and then removed obstacles. We also have the internet. I would say that the contribution of just individuals as they communicated on the internet and even the leadership that was shown on the internet. I'm talking about the Mark Cubans and et cetera. The people who just stepped up and added something useful. And there are a lot of ideas and connections and buyers and sellers finding each other and ideas that needed to be fleshed out with more people.

So the internet is this amazing system and in my opinion specifically Twitter. I'm a little biased but I think Twi