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In times of crisis, humans develop a dangerous, asymmetric view of events. We readily see the damage the crisis causes, but we don’t readily see the potential damage that proposed solutions can cause. And when information is uncertain, we tend to believe the worst about the crisis while tending to believe the best about proposed solutions. There is mounting evidence that this is playing out right now with the decision to shut down the economy in order to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Get Your Copy of Cooperation and Coercion Now! http://www.cooperationandcoercion.com Show Your Support for Words & Numbers at Patreon https://www.patreon.com/wordsandnumbers Quick Hits How We Deal with Lockdowns https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/04/15/coronavirus-police-maryland-town-urge-residents-wear-pants/5140750002/ Ghosts https://www.indy100.com/article/indonesia-ghosts-terrifying-coronavirus-lockdown-stay-home-9462511 Australia Trend https://www.sadanduseless.com/bin-isolation-outing/ Italian Toast https://www.facebook.com/MagnificentItaly/videos/178130129869702 Llama Rentals https://futurism.com/the-byte/rent-goats-llamas-zoom-meetings Pet Skype Calls https://www.themarysue.com/the-new-york-times-is-wrong-about-pets-on-video-conferences/ CO2 Supplies Diminishing https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-ethanol-beer/beer-may-lose-its-fizz-as-co2-supplies-go-flat-during-pandemic-idUSKBN2200G3 Foolishness of the Week Covid Scam https://wjla.com/news/nation-world/do-not-click-the-link-police-warn-of-scam-covid-19-text-messages Topic of the Week Flu Index https://www.cdc.gov/flu/about/burden/index.html United State Corona Cases https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/cases-in-us.html Santa Clara County Case Study https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.04.14.20062463v1 Boston’s Homeless Testing https://www.wbur.org/commonhealth/2020/04/14/coronavirus-boston-homeless-testing Corona’s Reach https://spectator.us/covid-antibody-test-german-town-shows-15-percent-infection-rate/ Quarantined Cruise Ship https://www.statista.com/statistics/1099517/japan-coronavirus-patients-diamond-princess/ Economic Outcome https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/14/us/politics/coronavirus-economy-recession-depression.html Intervention Cost Breakdowns http://econ.ucsb.edu/~tedb/Courses/UCSBpf/readings/interventions.pdf Cardiovascular Disease Spending https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3495132/ Join the conversation Words & Numbers Backstage https://www.facebook.com/groups/130029457649243/ Let us know what you think mailto:wordsandnumberspodcast@gmail.com Antony Davies on Twitter https://twitter.com/antonydavies James R. Harrigan on Twitter https://twitter.com/JamesRHarrigan |
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