Doctor Explains How to Prepare for a Pandemic | @WIRED
08 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Why new diseases keep appearing in China @NZHumanRights @voxdotcom
07 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
in development economics, economic history, economics of regulation, growth disasters, growth miracles, health economics Tags: economics of pandemics
The ‘Negativity Effect’ Leads to Bad Journalism, Big Government, and Busted Relationships
06 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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So true
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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By @WHO mission to China
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Nothing more that a severe flu season is ahead plus a lot of panicky overreactions
05 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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The wages of sin since 1926 has been 2.5% per year @jamespeshaw @NZGreens @Greens @greenpeaceusa @mfe_news
04 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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From https://www.forbes.com/2009/10/21/sin-stocks-outperform-personal-finance-sin-stocks.html#3b5f89954cfd and http://pages.stern.nyu.edu/~sternfin/mkacperc/public_html/sin.pdf
The 1918 Pandemic: why the Spanish Flu was the Deadliest Flu in History
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Nanny-in-Chief
03 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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Pandemic timelines
01 Mar 2020 Leave a comment
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