No, it’s porn in the time of the coronavirus.
Yes, this is my shocked face, too.
Category Archives: Technology and Society
Testing
…is coming to your doctor’s office, or even your home.
We have suffered the most from lack of knowledge of who has it, or has had it. We won’t be able to get back to anything resembling pre-virus normal until we can do extensive testing.
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This would help a lot, too: Searching for a cure from the blood of survivors.
Trust The “Experts”
Public health authorities have failed us at every level, and the powerful people who were catastrophically wrong about China.
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The long hard road to decoupling from China. We cannot have globalization with countries that do not share our values of liberty and individualism. But we should more strongly embrace the China that works: Taiwan.
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A bipartisan call for WHO to make Taiwan a member. That of course begs the question that WHO is an organization even worthy of our funding.
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The massive failure of the federal government in the pandemic argues against Medicare for all.
Social Impact
The virus is going to redefine home, work, education, and life.
Food Shortages Soon?
I’ve been concerned about this for a while. It shows how fragile our infrastructure is. And it’s why proposals like Zeke Emanuel’s to continue it for over a year is societal suicide.
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Related: The coronavirus is revealing our technology blunders.
How To Escape House Arrest
Most U.S. Jobs
You don’t say.
But I’ll bet a lot more of them can than have been until this.
Apollo 13, And Commercial Crew
I did a Twitter thread.
Optimism
We are 100 times safer now than in early March. Hope this is right.
Stirling Moss
We’ve lost a great of auto racing. That’s a name from my youth that I’d forgotten.