More Jacobin vax story / some MJJG

[Raphael Saltwood]

A) Jacobin is a provocative name for a magazine!
Weren’t the Jacobins the off-with-their-heads faction? Why on earth would one align with them?

B) A Kickstarter for the open source vax last year might’ve done quite well. Largest successful such campaign was like $20M for a smart watch.
55$M for testing is less than an order of magnitude higher...and nasal administration would be a big selling point, wouldn’t it?

  *    crowdsourcing could solve funding issues
  *   But it would still require a lot of bookkeeping, running tests, hiring, production, distribution, insurance issues
  *   (As Barbie said about math) “Business is hard!”
  *   Biggest crowdsourced vaporware- $300M raised since 2012 for game Star Citizen/Squadron 42 yet no release

C) Riding a groundswell - LaBas’s HooDoo business might have scaled if Jes Grew really took off (& if Berbelang hadn’t been lured away by the backward-looking Mu’tafikah, in which case his capable hands would’ve aided the business, & Earline might’ve not neglected the 21st loa tray)
—- yet, like LaBas, Reed sees little point in trying to relive that scenario and correct those problems. He looks forward to a new “text” and tries to discern underlying principles.

 D) it’s tempting to relate Abdul Hamid’s destruction of the manuscript to a filibuster: one person blocking something arbitrarily regardless of its popularity.