New York is starting to trial them for treatment of the virus.
If this works, it’s good news on at least two fronts: It will help save lives, and it would indicate that getting infected and recovering does confer immunity.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
The CDC And FDA
Regulation kills.
[Update a few minutes later]
Distillers have to fight the FDA bureaucracy to produce hand sanitizer.
The Media
The American people think it’s been doing a terrible job of covering the coronavirus. The American people are right.
Saving America
Pornhub Premium is going temporarily free to encourage you to stay home.
It’s good marketing; it may get people to sign up after this is over. Wonder what it will do to their server/bandwidth costs, though?
SpaceX
…has just been awarded a contract to supply the Gateway (assuming the Gateway ever actually exists).
Federalism
After too many decades, almost a century, the people have pulled aside the curtain, and the man behind it has been exposed.
Factory Farms
Hey, I’d like to end them, too, but his solution–to go vegetarian–is not nutritionally viable to me. It would be in no way a dietary improvement.
It sure would be great if we could somehow manufacture meat without the suffering, though. It’s a technology that would be very useful for spaceflight.
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.
[Wednesday-morning update]
Why that doomsday scenario is likely way off.
[Bumped]
[Wednesday-afternoon update]
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.
[Update a while later]
Related: A litany of useless laws have been exposed as well.
[Update a while more later]
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.
Turning Back The Clock
Rejuvenating cells by reprogramming them.
Faster, please.