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We’re in the middle of a dramatic political realignment which is obscured by legacy party labels.Nationalists have dropped all opposition to economic controls and socialists have dropped all opposition to
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If there’s a vaccine and the anti-vaxx people are refusing to get vaccinated with it, the fur is going to fly. I was surprised at how many people *genuinely* seem
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COVID19 is not the flu.https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/fvfsbf/oc_its_not_just_the_flu_ii_comparing_weekly/fmi3ep8/ Flashback to Jan 31.https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1223088081777065985
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Yes, these trends were happening but now they’ve been accelerated.Moreover, given that Zoom is up 20X while sports, movie theaters, K12, college attendance are down ~100% — it’s not going
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The train crash we are observing in the US is due to the fact that we are governed by lawyers and journalists and politicians, people who specialize in political rather
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The virus crisis is happening because there is a critical deficit of quantitative reasoning in our media & political class.Here, Brian Williams of MSNBC and Mara Gay of the NYT
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Did a billionaire make you write this column https://twitter.com/fmanjoo/status/1246875357610795008 Own it? If Gates owned the state, virus response would be differentFleece it? They just printed trillionsShrink it? It keeps
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Why didn't the Spanish Flu lockdowns cause unprecedented unemployment?This strikes me as a critically important question.We know why the economy of 1918 was more robust to, say, an electromagnetic pulse.Why
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The numbers are off the chart because this isn’t a recession or depression. This is more like the first successful invasion of America, by a virus.Things break in wartime that
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Act 1 was the virus — and is still ongoing — but Act 2 is a series of economic crises beyond anything we’ve seen before.Like a meteor hitting the ocean
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2020 may end the 20th century, the century of mass society.Concerts, events, rallies, marches, K12, higher ed, restaurants, bars, airplanes, mass transit. Anything with tightly packed crowds of people is
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I don't think people realize that there is no normal to go back to anymore. At absolute minimum:1) Supply & demand has been reallocated across the economy, with travel &
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