Insight by Zeynep
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http://zeynep.substack.com 02-10-2020 23:13:30
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Guest @Insight essay on why novelty means severity, and why so many questions about variants, children, Long Covid, endemicity and more revolve around that very notion by dylanhmorris.
Nothing in this pandemic makes sense except in the light of novelty.
theinsight.org/p/novelty-mean…
Vast majority of gas stations in North Carolina are reportedly without gasoline. What does this have to do with understanding the pandemic? Or with Battlestar Galactica? My new post for Insight by Zeynep. theinsight.org/p/battlestar-g…
A phenomenal guest essay by Whitney R. Robinson on how she navigated the uncertain early pandemic environment to decide whether to send her kids to childcare. A central tension in epidemiology, how to pick questions, observed vs. expected, sticky priors and more! theinsight.org/p/how-one-epid…
I can’t recommend this enough. zeynep tufekci takes apart the idea of “absence of evidence is evidence of absence”, and explains: well, sometimes it really is!
This seems to me to be the more pragmatic question.
zeynep.substack.com/p/pandemic-the…
I've written a (long!) piece for the Atlantic about the five key lessons from the Pandemic that I believe are valuable to study, especially since they apply broadly. I have an open thread on my newsletter (no sub necessary) to allow better back-and-forth. zeynep.substack.com/p/pandemic-les…