re: #221 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

It’s all so tragic yet avoidable.

Also, I do wonder about the “oxygen supply” in Florida if no one figured out:
1) that there would be a surge in need by hospitals given Florida embraces culling-the-herd mentality;
2) why did no local entrepreneur open an oxygen supply shop. It’s not as if it is difficult to isolate oxygen from the atmosphere or do hydrolysis.

Extracting oxygen, collecting it, compressing it into liquid, and moving it in large enough quantities for water plants and hospitals is a monumental set of infrastructure to create, and a “private entrepreneur” could never create enough for that.

A government which wanted to leverage large quantities of oxygen from existing private industry could do things like requisition it via eminent domain from airports (many have LOX plants for aviation), but that would meet pushback from airlines.

As usual, this is a problem of “just-in-time” capitalism. There is no built-in cushion for sudden demand.