Interesting Links for 07-04-2020

[andrewducker]

Dialysis machine shortages lay bare wider threat from Covid-19

(tags:Doom virus pandemic )

You Should Worry About Coronavirus in the Southern States (for more complex reasons than you'd think}

(tags:USA pandemic inequality race poverty )

What it means to be admitted to intensive care

(tags:medicine UK )

500-year-old Scottish manuscript contains earliest known use of the word "Fuck"

(tags:Scotland history language swearing )

Having Too Much Information Can Lead Us To Make Worse Decisions

(tags:decisions psychology )

A story about Ed Miliband

(tags:politics Labour UK coal globalwarming )

How far away are 'immunity passports'?

(tags:statistics pandemic )

Comments

[danieldwilliam]

I once happened upon an early example of the Jamaica pun in the 17th century Records of the Privy Council of Scotland.

Local ship owner applied to the Privy Council for permission to trawl round the prisons in Edinburgh, Leith and Dundee looking for prisoners who would exchange a commutted sentence for 7 years indentured servitude in Jamaica.

Yes, but only if the prisoners went of their own accord.