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There's some interesting stuff going on in China's property market right now, with some of the tensions I've written about over the last 2yrs getting worse.First: government often talks a

I've had a few conversations recently with people who think I overemphasise policy decisions in Covid outcomes. I think I do focus on the policy decisions a lot, and I'm

When I tweet about UK Covid-19 policies I often get responses about enforcement and people not abiding by the rules, which I think is missing the point a bit -

I've started to think that the common discussions of Asia's Covid-19 experience need to split 'success' countries into two categories. There seems to be too much focus on Taiwan &

A herd immunity data point: Borough Park in NYC has one of the highest antibody rates seen in the developed world: 43.9%, based on a huge testing program covering almost

One of the things I've noticed during the pandemic is how popular "up is down" logic becomes when it offers us something we all want. We know from first principles

Remember that Japan has one of the oldest societies in the world, fewer than 1000 official coronavirus deaths. Still don't really get it.https://twitter.com/GearoidReidy/status/1260859681334890498 It's really good though! And as in

My overwhelming suspicion, living in a place where there is very little community spread, is that this stuff is massively overplayed. We'll all go back to almost totally recognizably normal

What real contact tracing looks like : A friend caught covid-19, so I was put in a HK quarantine camp for close contacts 'til it'd been 14 days since I'd