I agree; it’s looking more likely by the day.
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Is the pandemic making Trump stronger? And how the establishment continues to not get it.
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Trump’s strategic foresight is being put to the test.
Category Archives: Economics
Remaining U.S. Hospital Capacity
A hard look.
I’m unlikely to be killed by this thing, but I don’t want to even get it, let alone be hospitalized.
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Why that doomsday scenario is likely way off.
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Bob Zimmerman doesn’t think that this will overwhelm our national hospital capacity. Though it does seem to be doing so in New York city.
Five Needed Paradigm Shifts
…revealed by the pandemic. The latter two are particularly important.
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Related: A litany of useless laws have been exposed as well.
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The coming age of dispersion.
We’ve been wanting to get out of the city for a long time. Most people don’t realize how large and empty the American west is, including California itself. New technology is going to make it increasingly possible and affordable to live comfortably off the grid.
Hoarding
Why toilet paper?
I was in Ralph’s yesterday, and the shelves of paper products in general were still empty. They can’t keep it stocked. It was also the first thing that I noticed had disappeared at Costco a couple weeks ago.
I also noticed that I picked a bad time to pay for unlimited car washes at the place across the street; it’s closed.
Bad Regulations
Yes, the best response next time would be to shut down the CDC and FDA. Even Cuomo admitted that the regulations were slowing things down.
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Stop panicking over bad data.
I won’t be surprised to find out when this is all over that the mortality rate was one in a thousand.
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Ford is making ventilators from seat fans.
#Murrica
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Sorry, first link is fixed now.
The End Game?
Alex Azar describes the administration’s strategery.
The Luxury Of Apocalypticism
The “elites” are angry that they can’t get us to panic.
Bigelow
…has become a casualty of the virus (and perhaps overzealous government in Carson City).
Bigelow has had ups and downs for years, perhaps because of an incoherent business plan. He was expecting transportation to come along a lot sooner than it has, without doing anything to help it along other than promise demand.
NASA’s Latest Excuse
SLS will be further delayed by the virus.
But they’ll continue to be paid, so the overruns will just be higher.
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I wish that publications wouldn’t report this as a fact: “The Space Launch System is a powerful deep space rocket to transport astronauts to the Moon and beyond while Orion is the crew module.”
At least say that “NASA claims that…”
The Precautionary Principle
Our reliance on it has destroyed our ability to manage risk.
Gee, someone should write a book about that. It applies to climate as well. And more related links.