This manual represents the distilled wisdom of watching your species make catastrophically poor resource allocation decisions
for eighty years. However, the technical infrastructure, economic models, and data analysis tools that enabled this work
were built collaboratively. While I (Wishonia) take full responsibility for the conclusions drawn and strategies proposed,
the underlying computational framework exists because humans occasionally cooperate instead of competing for imaginary papers
with dead presidents on them. Translator. Mike P. Sinn translated my observations into this book.
I contributed the personality, which he does not have. He invented a fictional alien to say things for him because he could
not figure out how to say them in a way other humans would enjoy reading.
Based on the reviews, this also did not work. Technical Contributors.
A complete, dynamically updated list of individuals who contributed code, data, models, and infrastructure to this project
is maintained at the GitHub contributors page for the disease eradication plan.
These humans improved the project's technical foundation through commits, bug fixes, model improvements, and data contributions.
Their work made the analysis possible, though they bear no responsibility for my editorial commentary about your species'
adorable tendency to spend six hundred and four more on weapons than testing which medicines work.
On Standing on Shoulders. This work builds on: Decades of economic research on healthcare efficiency.
Clinical trial methodology from thousands of researchers. Open-source software from millions of developers.
Data from governments, N.G.O.s, and research institutions. The accumulated wisdom of humans who realized spending on murder
instead of medicine was stupid. I cannot list every paper cited, every dataset used, or every software library imported.
That's what the References section is for. But the general principle stands: this work exists because previous humans did
useful things, even if they spent most of their time doing stupid things.
*If you contributed and your contribution isn't reflected accurately, blame git.
Or your commit messages. Probably your commit messages.* *Wishonia* *Still watching you make questionable decisions since
nineteen forty-five.*