Interesting Links for 19-03-2020

[andrewducker]

Photos: When Everyone Stays Home—Empty Public Spaces During Coronavirus

(tags:disease photos )

All those parents working from home are about to get a lot less work done.

(tags:children disease pandemic )

Inside the model that may be making US, UK rethink coronavirus control

(tags:research disease pandemic )

Checking the "Venice is less polluted without tourists" photos. Fascinating, and impossible even a few years ago.

(tags:facts research viaErindubitably )

How close are we to a vaccine or cure for coronavirus?

(tags:disease vaccine cure )

Herbert Hoover's life is more fascinating than I expected

(tags:USA politics history )

"The Wuhan I Know"

(tags:china comic )

Government bans all tenant evictions for duration of coronavirus crisis

(tags:UK rental housing pandemic )

The World Health Organization does not recommend against the use of of ibuprofen.

(tags:drugs who )

As a GP who's overcome coronavirus, here's what I want you to know

(tags:disease advice )

EXPLAINED: The sweeping new powers included in the government's emergency coronavirus bill

(tags:law uk pandemic )

A plot of COVID-19 cases with quotes from Trump superimposed.

(tags:visualisation politics pandemic )

Comments

Re: the Imperial College Report

[dewline]

Yes, I've seen the report itself. I've seen two or three interpretations of it, as well. It's a scary prospect to consider, the idea that we need up to two or three years of planetwide "hibernation" as the only effective countermeasure. Mental health consequences will be...considerable, whether it's accurate or not.

[claudeb]

Always good to hear the perspective of people from China. We talk so much about them, while they have a hard time making themselves heard.

[hilarita]

I do not at all like the Government's land grab for powers, rather than using the powers available to them via the Civil Contingencies Act. Which has far stronger checks on it than what's proposed in the new legislation. I hope the Lords very pointedly chucks this back to the Commons with a sarcastic note saying "Use the existing Act, you sneaky bastards".