COVID-19 - Quillette (Page 6)

After the Virus: The Way We Live Next

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?

John Lloyd

10 May 2020 · 15 min read

Enough With the Phoney 'Lockdown' Debate

It’s been fuelled, on both sides, by the presumption that government decrees work as a sort of magic wand that will bring our economies (and perhaps the most acute phase of the pandemic) back to life.

Jonathan Kay

8 May 2020 · 10 min read

COVID-19 Conspiracists and Their Discontents

The mind abhors a vacuum of explanation. So when gaps in knowledge open up, the empty spaces are filled with available explanations that, however implausible, seem morally compelling.

Michael Shermer

7 May 2020 · 9 min read

The Case for a Mandatory COVID-19 App

Given a choice between closing the mall to everyone or opening it and refusing entry to a few with an alert on their app, which is better?

Sean Welsh

7 May 2020 · 8 min read

The Age of the Homebody Has Only Begun

The bar for opening the door and going outside is simply going to be set much higher.

Einat Wilf

7 May 2020 · 8 min read

Poultry Farming, COVID-19, and the Next Pandemic

No animal on Earth is treated with more inhumanity than chickens, and this industrial cruelty has in turn made chickens and other birds one of the gravest threats to our health.

Matt Johnson

5 May 2020 · 12 min read

Risk, Uncertainty, and COVID-19 Strategies

The current crisis has highlighted the risks associated with untamed uncertainty, as well as those associated with under- or overestimating the impact of measures intended to combat COVID-19.

Timo Ehrig and Nicolai J. Foss

4 May 2020 · 12 min read

An ICU Doctor Reports From the Frontline

ICU nurses are some of the true heroes of this pandemic.

George Godfrey

3 May 2020 · 8 min read

Human Challenge Trials—A Coronavirus Taboo

If we can overcome the taboos surrounding HCTs, they can become a game changer in combating the coronavirus and limiting its ruinous effects on countless lives.

William Wiebe

1 May 2020 · 10 min read

Why Have Britain’s Ethnic Minorities Been Hit Harder by COVID-19? It’s Hardly a Mystery

The public-health policies that are put in place in coming years will affect our ability to withstand the next pandemic.

Shabnam Nasimi

1 May 2020 · 5 min read

Press Censorship Has Always Hurt Democracy. In the Age of COVID-19, It's Also Killing People

Freedom of the press is a fundamental human right and a key pillar of democracy.

Brad Polumbo

30 Apr 2020 · 5 min read

Italy and the EU: The Hard and Stony Road Ahead

Now, both its political class and its people face a much harder road—a hard, narrow, and stony one, to end a dependence sapping both Italy and Europe.

John Lloyd

29 Apr 2020 · 11 min read

COVID-19 Is Not the End of 'The End of History'

As COVID-19 suffocates the global economy, borders remain closed, and tensions mount between EU countries, the US and China, etc., Fukuyama’s critics are taking the opportunity to dismiss the “The End of History?” while ignoring its basic premises.

Matt Johnson

24 Apr 2020 · 13 min read

COVID-19 Superspreader Events in 28 Countries: Critical Patterns and Lessons

In the absence of any comprehensive database of COVID-19 superspreading events, I built my own.

Jonathan Kay

23 Apr 2020 · 21 min read

COVID-19's Gender Gap

This negative narrative around men risks exacerbating the gender empathy gap, part of a wider unconscious bias against men, recently identified as an aspect of gamma bias.

John Barry

22 Apr 2020 · 5 min read