Alex Azar describes the administration’s strategery.
Category Archives: Science And Society
The Luxury Of Apocalypticism
The “elites” are angry that they can’t get us to panic.
Extinction rebellion
Kind of sucks to not be able to die because you might get sick.
Wet Markets
Yes, it’s long past time to ban them. It should be a condition of re-engagement with the Chinese economy.
America’s Micro And Macro Efforts
…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 Left’s Pet Issues
…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.
Seattle
Things are looking very grim there. Like northern Italy.
Intelligent Voluntary Cooperation
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.
“Green” Grocery Bags
It will be morbidly hilarious if “green” Californians die from coronavirus due to their voting stupidity.
The Coronavirus
The problem with it isn’t what you can see, but what you can’t.
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Six movies about pandemics to watch (or avoid) if you’re stuck at home (from Lileks).