No, it’s not going to be easy. Some things will be changed permanently.
[Update at noon]
Six things we’ve learned so far. The sixth is probably the most important. People are going to try to take advantage of this to do what they’ve always wanted to do.
I wonder if this means that we could sterilize with UV lamps?
Has Wolfram found one?
Haven’t read this yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
…were flawed and misleading.
As with climate, models are not science.
Things of which Lileks is mightily tired.
Me, too.
Is it a factor in COVID deaths? First I’d heard that, but I wouldn’t be surprised. A lot of people who are obese are that way because of poor diets, which can also cause inflammation and weakened immune systems.
[Update a few minutes later]
The monumental failure of the CDC (and FDA, which is responsible for the terrible nutritional advice that causes inflammation and obesity). As an example of its mission creep that prevented it from doing its actual job, WTF is the CDC doing being involved in workplace safety? To the degree that that’s a federal responsibility (it isn’t), that’s the job of OSHA.
[Update a while later]
Related: The tradeoff between big government and competent government.
[Update late morning]
40% of extreme cases suffer neurological symptoms. That’s bad, but as noted, that can happen with the flu, too.
[Update a few minutes later]
Fast tracking to find the best therapies. This is not FDA approved…
[Thursday-afternoon update]
Related to the post topic? Little Fat Man Kim Jong Un fails to show up at a celebration.
[Update Friday morning]
This is possibly related: Glucose metabolism may play a key role. That, along with the diabetes, would be consistent with the obesity. I’ll bet dollars to high-glycemic doughnuts that diet is a factor. Maybe putting people on keto would be palliative.
[Bumped]
[Update a few minutes later]
Just to follow up on the keto thought, unfortunately, there are few diets worse for health than hospital diets, which follow the disastrous FDA guidelines.
Does it cause mental illness?
Not sure which direction the causality is here.
There’s apparently a new remake coming out.
Unpopular opinion (which I’ve probably expressed here before): Dune is the most overrated book in SF. And the sequels were terrible.
On a sad note, I recently decided to finally pick up The Cat Who Walks Through Walls, which has been on the bookshelf for decades (paperback), and read it. I couldn’t get more than a few pages in. Heinlein really needed an editor in his later years.