Interesting Links for 14-03-2020

[andrewducker]

Explaining the UK government's Coronavirus plan

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Have some very round animals.

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The sneeze fetishists are having the best time

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Boris Johnson is taking the scientific advice when it comes to coronavirus

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Quarantined Italians Sing Together Across Empty Streets In Hauntingly Beautiful Video

(tags:Italy disease music video )

The best thing I've read on the British response to the COVID 19 pandemic

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How does mathematical modelling analysis feed into UK government COVID-19 policy?

(tags:disease UK mathematics )

Tests indicate coronavirus can survive in the air for hours

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What if the Doctor Who (new) season one finale Bad Wolf/The Parting of the Ways was written in the style of The Timeless Child?

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The WHO disagrees with the UK's approach to the Coronavirus epidemic

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FactCheck: what is herd immunity?

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Comments

[coth]

I like your "best thing" on Covid-19 - I'm also one of those who thinks you can't control it so in the long run planning to ride it might work much better. But governments have got to take notice of what everybody thinks, and sometimes doing the objectively wrong thing is the subjectively right thing to do if it means people can work with something that would otherwise overwhelm them.

Meanwhile, I think we will emerge from this into a changed world. A lot of people are not even trying to allow for the costs (and occasional benefits) of losing 'business as usual' ways of keeping us alive and functioning, so that patterns of life and death are going to change in very non-obvious ways. When we get to look back on this from a position of new normality some very non-intuitive things will have happened.

For an example of possibilities: this virus being from an animal, the pandemic might be used:
- To renew our assault on the natural world in order to eliminate pools of possible infection, just as we have begun to understand how much and how dangerously we have already damaged the ecosystems we depend on.
- Or, alternatively, by discouraging wet markets and hunting while limiting human travel and discouraging contact with other animals, allow the natural world some recovery from our over-exploitation.
- Or, most likely, both, in different parts of the world, as people and nations make different decisions and have different experiences of the pandemic.

Anyway, it will all be fascinating and terrifying. Let's hope we all get to live through it to find out what happens.

[cmcmck]

The singing thing started in Siena, my favourite place on the entire planet- it's a place with massive social cohesion so I'm loving this. :o)