Tag: covid
COVID-19 pathways
The disease can attack almost anything in the body with devastating consequences. Its ferocity is breathtaking and humbling.
Japan COVID-19 predictions
We should think, very carefully, on how we design organizations, particularly organizations which are systemic chokepoints during prompt crises. They need to move faster than seems currently reasonable to hope for.
Pandemic Modeling
a great explanation for some of the challenges
SK Digital Contact Tracing
In South Korea, the government is disseminating detailed tracking data on people with COVID-19. Most of the residents’ feedback is asking for more information, for us to be even more revealing.
the west is fucked
Frontline medical worker
it is the pride of our world class-healthcare system
Contagion vs COVID-19
I would have never imagined that the movie needed a “bad guy” beyond the virus itself. It seems pretty basic that the plot should be humans united against the virus. If you were writing it now, you would have to take into account the blunders of a dishonest president and the political party that supports him. But any good studio executive would have probably told us that such a character was unbelievable and made the script more of a dark comedy than a thriller.
Social vs economic distance
Regulate interactions, not where those interactions take place. Reopen the economy with social distance protocols.
Japan Paper Addiction
unnecessary paperwork will kill many japanese companies
Even the most technologically savvy companies have not been able to completely shake the habit of stamping documents. Line, the company that developed Japan’s most popular chat app, has largely eliminated the use of hanko in its office, designing an application that allows users to seal documents with a digital stamp.
COVID-19 Antibody Update
having some sort of “immunological passport” will be a complicated process, 1 that might not clear as many people as 1 would hope.
Gregor J. Rothfuss 