I couldn’t find anyone who wanted to travel right after COVID so I decided I’d go to Costa rica my self. I think it was a worthwhile experience. I’m not outwardly shy but am still really scared when I talk to new people and I think putting myself in that situation really forced me to talk to a bunch of strangers. It didn’t always work out but I met a lot of cool people and Costa Rica is a really fun place to be if you like to be active.

I mean I see this all the time but those people tend to either have the tribal knowledge or specialist expertise to keep things moving when we hit snags. It’s not obvious until the obvious or textbook solutions to problems run out

Though there are also people around because they talked to all the right people all the time so I partially take your point

Well I think one part is the likelihood of making super diseases but there probably a big psychological aspect too. Plus once you plug in a profit motive your just setting yourself up for some dark shit

Done, good luck!