Jeff Bezos: Widespread coronavirus testing needed before economy can get running again
2 min readJeff Bezos, founder and chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., speaks at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Sept. 19, 2019. Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images. Article by Annie Palmer. Published Thu, Apr 16 2020.
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said mass testing around the world for the coronavirus is needed to “get the economy back up and running.”
- In his annual shareholder letter, he said he hopes to test Amazon workers, including those with no symptoms. […]
Amazon is acting aggressively to protect our customers from bad actors looking to exploit the crisis. We’ve removed over half a million offers from our stores due to COVID-based price gouging, and we’ve suspended more than 6,000 selling accounts globally for violating our fair-pricing policies. Amazon turned over information about sellers we suspect engaged in price gouging of products related to COVID-19 to 42 state attorneys general offices. To accelerate our response to price-gouging incidents, we created a special communication channel for state attorneys general to quickly and easily escalate consumer complaints to us.[…]
To ensure that future generations have the skills they need to thrive in a technology-driven economy, we started a program last year called Amazon Future Engineer, which is designed to educate and train low-income and disadvantaged young people to pursue careers in computer science. We have an ambitious goal: to help hundreds of thousands of students each year learn computer science and coding. […]
Reflect on this from Theodor Seuss Geisel:
“When something bad happens you have three choices. You can either let it define you, let it destroy you, or you can let it strengthen you.”
I am very optimistic about which of these civilization is going to choose. […]