Reducing the Chance of New Pandemics
To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
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To call SARS-CoV-2 the “pandemic of the century” is a figure of speech, and an optimistic one at that.
Protection at the cost of a planned economy and a surveillance state would be no protection at all.
Cities in which inequality has been allowed to deepen for a generation now need to find new strategies that provide hope and fairer policies to their poorer residents. The alternative is watching them burn when minority and working class resentment inevitably erupts.
Even prior to the pandemic, Barclays was predicting that the alternative-meat industry could grow ten-fold by the end of the next decade.
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Even before COVID-19, cruising already was seen as a politically incorrect, white-privilege, “Ok, boomer” form of indulgence.
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Much of the prognostication about the future’s outlines, especially the more dire forecasts, assume that we will change, or be changed, greatly. But will we?
The bar for opening the door and going outside is simply going to be set much higher.