…to combat the epidemic. At the least, it’s an interesting experiment.
[Update a few minutes later]
Meanwhile, the Manchurian media.
[Update w while later]
South Korea infections are dropping; what’s the key to its success?
Basically, testing and tracing. I’ll feel better once there’s a lot more testing going on here.
[Update late morning]
When will it be over, and how will be know? TL;DR, it’s about getting R naught below 1.
Meanwhile, despite the slow start, there’s a lot we can be proud of.
The world will be changed.
Yes, and in many ways, for the better.
…has been taken off the critical path for 2024.
This is probably the beginning of the end for it. Long before 2026, it will have become very clear that the road to the planets lies with the private sector, not NASA.
The pandemic will weaken it on the world stage.
They are not our friends. Which, of course, means that the media love them. The latter are, in fact, enemies of the American people.
[Update a few minutes later]
Leftists echo the Chinese Communist Party in accusing Trump of racism.
“Leftists echo the Chinese Communist Party” is evergreen.
The Europeans are thinking about building a rocket that retrofires and lands vertically. Eric Berger brings the snark.
…like mass transit, dense housing, and reusable bags and straws are a public-health disaster. I was predicting this about California since they passed that stupid plastic-bag ban.
[Update a while later]
Plastic had fallen out of favor, but the virus is bringing it back.
Thoughts from Arnold Kling.
We need to start testing as many as possible as soon as possible.
[Update early afternoon]
Ten ways the Left has politicized the pandemic.
Only ten?
[Update a while later]
The vast majority of spread has been coming from the asymptomatic. We need to start testing early and often.
[Update Tuesday morning]
Chloriquine continues to look promising, particularly if it really can be prophylactic.
Update a few minutes later]
No, China is not our friend. And I agree that media shills for it should be named as enemies of the American people.
[Mid-afternoon update]
I just asked my doctor if she could write a prescription for chloriquine. She couldn’t.
[Update a few minutes later]
Bob Zimmerman: The unwarranted panic.
[Update a while later]
Hitler isn’t happy about being quarantined.
Things are looking very grim there. Like northern Italy.
How the industry is being affected so far.
More from Allison Duettmann, who is co-writing what looks to be an interesting new book with Mark Miller (who I haven’t seen in years).
If you have the time, the next in the playlist is a salon with her and Aubrey De Grey on the value of life extension, but it’s a little over an hour. Foresight has put a lot of videos on line recently from its Vision Weekend last year.