Category Archives: Science And Society
The Economic Wreckage
Bob Zimmerman catalogs it.
Some things will recover quickly, but we won’t have a robust recovery until people have sufficient confidence that they can go back to sporting events or movie theaters or restaurants at normal capacity, which will probably require a vaccine (even if it’s a placebo). And now, despite all the money being pumped into the economy, the Fed has to worry seriously about deflation.
Remdesivir
…seems to be at least somewhat effective.
If we can find what works for treatment, and only isolate the most vulnerable, that’s the best path forward to re-open the economy in the absence of a vaccine.
[Update a while later]
Time to dump epidemic models? All models are wrong, some are useful, but it’s not clear that these have been, though they’ve certainly been used to implement policies that a lot of people wanted to implement before the pandemic.
[Bumped]
Smooth Move, CDC
The country’s in the very best of hands.
You’d have to be pretty Trump deranged to blame this on Trump.
LA County
Over a 50% unemployment rate?
What a disaster.
[Update a few minutes later]
Well, this news about Hokkaido’s second wave isn’t great.
[Update Saturday morning]
California’s “Reopening Task Force” is the usual leftist hacks, who don’t want a pandemic to go to waste. It would be a joke if not for how disastrous this will be.
How To Get The Economy Back In Gear
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.
Sunlight And High Humidity
I wonder if this means that we could sterilize with UV lamps?
A New Fundamental Theory Of Physics
Has Wolfram found one?
Haven’t read this yet, but I’m looking forward to it.
The Models
…were flawed and misleading.
As with climate, models are not science.
The Duration
Things of which Lileks is mightily tired.
Me, too.