Liberty

https://www.ft.com/content/dae6d006-9adc-46d5-9b4e-79a7841022e8 “ Swedish expert admits country should have had tighter coronavirus controls Shift comes as Stockholm promises a commission to investigate approach to pandemic”

Two good ones from CGP grey, about pirates:

This is cool: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-05-25/-sunshine-to-asia-power-plan-moves-forward-with-cable-contract "Sun Cable project, backed by Atlassian co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes & Fortescue Metals’ founder Andrew Forrest... plans to export power from a giant solar farm in Australia to Singapore via a 3,800km undersea [high voltage DC] cable."

Watched the launch live with my oldest son. Quite a moment to share.

NZ showing how it’s done: https://www.sbs.com.au/news/new-zealand-is-down-to-just-one-active-coronavirus-case

Something is going on at the CDC...

You should spend less time thinking about Trump. Tony Schwartz isn't even a psychologist. I'll think about whatever I want, thank you very much. I guess I can't know anything about investing, I've never studied it and don't have a degree. I suggest you watch this documentary, it's very interesting: [Part 1] [Part 2] [Part 3] [Part 4] [Part 5] [Part 6] [Part 7] [Part 8] [Part 9]

On the psychology behind the man, which helps explain a lot of the COVID reaction (and the rest of his life, frankly): https://medium.com/@tony_schwartz/the-psychopath-in-chief-aa10ab2165d9 This is written by the man who wrote The Art of the Deal for Trump and spent hundreds of hours with him over 18 month, so he's got plenty of first-hand experience.

Probably very very low, though not impossible, as it depends what you're doing outside (touching surfaces touched by many others?). Source? I think wearing a mask inside can be a very good idea in certain situations, and not do much in others. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

https://www.lifehacker.com.au/2020/05/no-wearing-a-mask-isnt-dangerous/

Interesting vaccine context vs SARS-Cov1, MERS, etc

https://www.wsj.com/articles/wuhan-tests-nine-million-people-for-coronavirus-in-10-days-11590408910

Saw this riff on an old one on reddit, thought I'd share: (and the first comment: "But he's a cunning old sod, and he sends a project manager down... and it all turns to shit and the engineer begs for release .")

https://www.researchsquare.com/article/rs-27223/v1 "Hydroxychloroquine in the treatment and prophylaxis of SARS-CoV-2 infection in non-human primates"

https://www.businessinsider.com/nearly-half-of-reopen-america-twitter-accounts-are-bots-report-2020-5

Daily stats from states are unreliable and I hope people don't make conclusions based on them. There were zero cases in MA one of the days: https://covidtracking.com/data/state/massachusetts#historical Of course. It's still a better sign to see it down than up, it's just a small update to priors that should be tracked over time to get a significant sample. I mostly didn't know that MA had done this about masks, that was the most interesting part of it, so it'll be interesting to track

Double-counting tests in UK... so much lying with data going on: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/global-health/science-and-disease/tens-thousands-coronavirus-tests-have-double-counted-officials/

From a doc I follow (his background: "ICU doc with expertise in biothreats preparedness, translational research, and drug/vaccine development."):

You not picking up your own bills reminds me of:

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/22/dr-anthony-fauci-says-staying-closed-for-too-long-could-cause-irreparable-damage.html Indeed. Exactly why managing the situation well is so important, and mismanaging it is so costly and has strong non-linear effects (as expected from an exponential process).

Andy Slavitt thread on brazil:

Study of HCC in Lancet: https://marlin-prod.literatumonline.com/pb-assets/Lancet/pdfs/S0140673620311806.pdf

Pre-making decision, regardless of the facts in the future: "Trump says he won’t close the country if second wave of coronavirus hits" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/21/trump-says-he-wont-close-the-country-if-second-wave-of-coronavirus-hits.html