There's a lot of hindsight. A friend of mine lives in downtown Manhattan, overlooking the convention center they turned into a makeshift hospital at the beginning of the pandemic. She told me that in… (View Post)

In Sweden, their parliamentary inquiry concluded they'd made a mistake, and they should have taken the Danish approach. In the UK, we conclude that we made a mistake and that we should have taken the… (View Post)

Well, there was certainly evidence that you could follow. For example, it was clear pretty quickly that the risk of infection when outside was very low. Likewise, we figured out pretty quickly that f… (View Post)

I think we were too slow to respond to new information - as is all too common with large and beauracratic institutions. The reality is that there were three approaches that had the best outcomes from… (View Post)

If you live in the US (or if you have access to a VPN and can *pretend* you live in the US), then there's Willow. That's $10/month. And you can cancel after the Ashes, having spent a grand total of a… (View Post)