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How well are developing nations handling the COVID outbreak?

There has been some discussion recently about the risk of terrible COVID-19 outbreaks happening in the developing world, where public health budgets are much smaller. This is happening in Ecuador rig…

"We can't sacrifice lives for the economy."

Let's momentarily set aside the difficult ways that "lives" and "the economy" are intertwined. We all agree that they are, and if we're being careful we should probably admit that we don't know just…

Reality vs Ideology.

In some of my previous posts, I've talked about prioritising reality over ideology, and supporting policy on the basis of evidence and outcomes rather than on the basis of whether it's [capitalist/so…

Improving the way we improve.

When we're looking to improve ourselves or society, a very common problem is that we're trying to do too much. We notice that there are many things we in principle could improve: our sleep, our train…

Pro-life vs Pro-Choice - revisiting the moral debate.

Most people who are pro-choice are "pro-choice, with caveats." For example, most pro-choice people I'm aware of are quite fine with abortions being illegal in the final trimester, except for the heal…

To live or to not die.

(Image: PA/GETTY) There are two basic attitudes one can have towards life. Some look at the world and say, "I want to live", while others say, "I don't want to die". A culture is kind of an aggregati…

Banning Chinese students is NOT the solution; open borders with incentive to stay IS.

> https://nypost.com/2020/04/26/sen-cotton-says-chinese-students-shouldnt-learn-science-in-us/ https://files.peakd.com/file/peakd-hive/honeybee/k7YLZLNU-image.png Senator Tom Cotton has proposed b…

WHO deletes tweet about COVID-19 immunity — A few thoughts.

In cased you missed it, the World Health Organization deleted a misleading tweet about COVID-19 immunity. Rather than drawing conclusions about the characteristics of a new virus on the basis of a tw…

A lot of folks believe government policy is keeping the economy shut down — They're wrong.

At this point, it's hard to believe that there are still virus deniers but alas, there are a plenty. Even as we succumb to 9/11 levels of fatalities each and every day, and are on course to surpass t…