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No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?

Ars Technica clutches pearls at poll showing decline in those willing to download privacy-infringing app to stymie spread of COVID-19.

China’s Covid-19 Recovery Is Intensifying Class Exploitation

China’s response to the pandemic is to furth disempower its domestic and peripheral populations.

U.S. Abandons Open Skies for New Age Space Weapons

The press has hyped the “gee whiz” factor of space toys while ignoring that exiting the Open Skies agreement will kick off a new arms race.

U.S. Declares a Vaccine War on the World

The U.S. fumbled its coronavirus response. Its intent to hoard vaccine profits only isolates it from other countries working on remedies.

Contact Tracing Via Old Shoe-Leather Epidemiology While Spurning the Techno-Fix Fairy: How Hong Kong Quells COVID-19 Without Killing Civil Liberties

Countries jostle to surrender civil liberties to a techno-fix app to quell COVID-19, but should instead heed Hong Kong’s low-tech lesson.

Tale of Two Cities Redux: HK to Ease its COVID-19 Restrictions, While NYC Situation Remains Dire

Hong Kong’s public health authorities protect its population from COVID-19, via use of masks; NYC, by contrast, flounders.

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Opened the Curtains on the World’s Next Economic Model

COVID-19 has exposed flaws in the global supply chain economic model; advances in technology have rendered it obsolete.

Coronavirus Kayoes U.S. Recycling

Coronavirus has wreaked havoc on waste management policies and led many U.S. municipalities to suspend or modify their recycling programs..

The Fed Backfires: Shock and Awe Rate Drop to 0%, Emergency Bond Buying Program Leads to Limit Down Drops in US Equity Futures as Real World Coronavirus Damage Worsens

The Fed just told everyone to assume the brace position.

Coronavirus Testing Shortages Force Extreme Shift In Strategy By Local Health Officials

Yves here. The admission that the US, even if it had coronavirus test results, lacked the institutional capacity to do contact tracing, is a stunner. Gee, we supposedly live in a world of AI and big data, but our Silicon Valley gearheads can’t come close to what China has done? But we can find the […]

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No, We Don’t Need to Place Our Faith in Downloading Some Untested, Privacy-Infringing App as the Only Possible COVID-19 Slayer; Why Don’t We Look to Places that Have Successfully Limited Disease Spread and Copy Their Policies?

China’s Covid-19 Recovery Is Intensifying Class Exploitation

U.S. Abandons Open Skies for New Age Space Weapons

Contact Tracing Via Old Shoe-Leather Epidemiology While Spurning the Techno-Fix Fairy: How Hong Kong Quells COVID-19 Without Killing Civil Liberties

Tale of Two Cities Redux: HK to Ease its COVID-19 Restrictions, While NYC Situation Remains Dire

The Coronavirus Pandemic Has Opened the Curtains on the World’s Next Economic Model

Coronavirus Kayoes U.S. Recycling

The Fed Backfires: Shock and Awe Rate Drop to 0%, Emergency Bond Buying Program Leads to Limit Down Drops in US Equity Futures as Real World Coronavirus Damage Worsens

Coronavirus Testing Shortages Force Extreme Shift In Strategy By Local Health Officials

Coronavirus: Three Vignettes

A Tale of Two Cities: How Hong Kong Has Controlled its Coronavirus Outbreak, While New York City Scrambles

China Could Start A New Solar Price War

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