https://marker.medium.com/what-everyones-getting-wrong-about-the-toilet-paper-shortage-c812e1358fe0
Commercial vs. residential supply chains. Low-margin, steady-state, carefully tuned systems. Hmmm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/01/world/europe/coronavirus-science-research-cooperation.html
“Insufficiently profitable.” So, we either have to make it more profitable (by allowing pharma to profit off vaccines) or we have to have governments developing more vaccines. As long as we don’t fix this, we’ll continue to experience these sorts of crises.
«While Mr. Trump has touted American pharmaceutical prowess, and big drug companies like Pfizer and Johnson & Johnson have announced that they are bankrolling coronavirus vaccine research, the biggest drug companies focus on drugs they can sell year after year in affluent countries, not during short-lived crises centered in the developing world. Vaccine research has been seen as insufficiently profitable.
When Ebola captured the world’s attention in 2014, for example, the drug giants that chased a vaccine all took major losses on their investments. The first vaccine, originally devised by a Canadian government lab and now sold by Merck, was approved for sale last year, long after the epidemic faded.»
https://www.wapt.com/article/mississippi-shelter-in-place-order/32008926
Welp… This governor was in the news not many days ago proudly stating that he didn’t need to issue a stay-at-home order for his state because there wasn’t any Covid there. The implication being that Covid is some sort of liberal/coastal state problem and real Murricans didn’t have to do all that stuff the pansies in New York and San Francisco have to do because they’re weak ninnies who let too many foreigners and other questionable sorts in, and then get scared about The Covid.
I’m guessing every one of these types of governors will get ground down by this pandemic, and in fairly short order.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-silicon-valley/the-lonely-work-of-moderating-hacker-news
This article is really, really good.
https://www.newsobserver.com/news/coronavirus/article241577016.html
How did car dealerships get to stay open? Repair shops, sure, but car BUYING?
I guess the Automobile Dealers Association has a lot more pull than we think.
https://twitter.com/emilyraboteau/status/1243516135485685763?s=20
Emily Raboteau (@emilyraboteau) Tweeted: Can we all pause to appreciate that @lsjamison has written yet another knockout landmark essay from a fever state in quarantine while suffering COVID-19, single parenting a toddler, and going through a painful divorce. Hats off to a great writer. https://t.co/hL36eXyRUC
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1243654839000870915.html
This seems right.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-coronavirus-isnt-just-a-blue-state-problem/
«Detected cases are higher in blue states, but growing faster in red states.»
https://apnews.com/5a5b657f4dbe639a9172d6fc44856ad1
Oh, this is going to be SO bad.
https://twitter.com/AlexandraErin/status/1243239599125733379
I think we have had enough of experts.
«So-called experts at Imperial College told us to spray thousands of gallons of water directly into a burning building or not only would it be destroyed but the entire block, so we did. Now it turns out the burning building was only partially damaged, and the rest are fine?
So-called experts at Imperial College told us not to drink and drive, so we stayed sober at the party and then we drove home fine. Not a single accident! If we weren’t going to get into an accident, why did we bother staying sober? We need to get to the bottom of this scandal.»
Here, Read This 