The current state of progress in our social crisis is hard to evaluate, being caught between the tension of an ever-mounting death toll, now exceeding 60,000 souls, and the need to reopen the economy. The tension between restrained civil liberties and the right of elderly and vulnerable people to be protected is not an easy decision.

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• Covid, health
• April 30, 2020

We are hearing lately about ‘herd immunity’ as a preventative or a projectible outcome of properly managing COVID. Might this be a Darwinian social experiment? First of all, human beings are not simply animals. We are not a ‘herd.’

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• Covid, health
• April 20, 2020