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The Blob’s wishes for the new year, as told by David Ignatius.

During a COVID-19 Surge, ‘Crisis Standards of Care’ Involve Excruciating Choices and Impossible Ethical Decisions for Hospital Staff

Hospital staff are bracing themselves for overload….if they aren’t there already.

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/31/2021

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Why Is the UK’s National Health Service Being Run by Former Bankers?

This forms part of a disturbing new trend in which bankers and central bankers are taking up positions of influence within government beyond their traditional bailiwicks.

Links 12/31/2021

‘Degrowth’ Isn’t Just About the Economy. It’s About Culture.

What would it take for the idea of degrowth as a response to climate change to get traction?

2:00PM Water Cooler 12/30/2021

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COVID Cases Fill More City Hospital Beds, Threatening Halt on Elective Surgeries

Yves here. This article makes explicit something that’s not hard to infer from coverage of Covid strain on hospitals: in the first wave, the limiting factor was physical capacity, in particular beds. Now the constraint more often is manning…which is harder to measure well and can be stretched in the short term. By Greg B. […]