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The core city will retain its appeal, but to stay safe, “social distancing” will likely curtail the once boisterous streetscape with its capacity for casual contacts, unique shops, and restaurants.
Its choice of a uniquely lax approach to the pandemic should not be mistaken for a sudden turn toward individual freedom.
A culture war over privacy looms.
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?
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.
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.
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?
The bar for opening the door and going outside is simply going to be set much higher.
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.
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.
ICU nurses are some of the true heroes of this pandemic.
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.
The public-health policies that are put in place in coming years will affect our ability to withstand the next pandemic.
Freedom of the press is a fundamental human right and a key pillar of democracy.
Jonathan Kay, Canadian editor of Quillette, talks to associate editor Toby Young about his recent article on COVID-19 superspreaders.