COVID-19 - Quillette (Page 8)

Denmark’s Weapons Against COVID-19: Early Action, High Trust—and a No-Nonsense Queen

There is no guarantee that the Danish health system will have the resources to help everyone who needs care. And the economy might be in tatters when the quarantine ends.

Kay Xander Mellish

29 Mar 2020 · 7 min read

The Case for Economic Hibernation during the COVID-19 Lockdowns

We are currently in the throes of a new kind of crisis where the underlying economy is healthy, but a non-economic crisis is stopping it in its tracks.

Einat Wilf and Saar Wilf

28 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

Social Distancing and Stay-Home Orders Are Likely To Save Millions

It was only after coronavirus proved so much more deadly in China and Italy that governments outside of Asia took dramatic actions including radical social distancing and stay-at-home orders.

Michael Shellenberger

26 Mar 2020 · 3 min read

COVID-19 Science Update for March 26th: Five Trends Shaping Medium-Term Policy

Even if a COVID-19 vaccine were invented tomorrow (it won’t be), our experience with the virus shows how underprepared we are for this kind of public-health emergency.

Jonathan Kay

26 Mar 2020 · 10 min read

Will COVID-19 Mark the End of European Liberalism?

According to the social science literature, there appears to be a positive correlation between the prevalence of disease and an increase in authoritarian-nationalist political views.

Jamie Martin

26 Mar 2020 · 9 min read

The Coming Age of Dispersion

New digital connections could incubate a new urban culture unlike any we have seen.

Joel Kotkin

25 Mar 2020 · 11 min read

No, COVID-19 Is Not a 'Disaster for Feminism'

It often seems like it’s mostly feminists who disparage female work and praise so highly the world of corporate and professional success.

Marilyn Simon

25 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

Humanity's Greatest Foe: Pandemics Through the Ages

The blind struggle against infectious diseases began to end when the microscope allowed for the discovery of the bacilli responsible for anthrax, tuberculosis, and cholera in the late 19th century.

Adam Rowe

23 Mar 2020 · 12 min read

COVID-19 Science Update for March 23rd: The Wealth Paradox

For the first time in a week, the daily number of new global confirmed COVID-19 deaths has dropped—from 1,690 to 1,660. That’s a small drop, but it’s important.

Jonathan Kay

23 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

Winning the War on Coronavirus

The governments of the US, UK, and other nations have made real progress, but they must go much further in being transparent about their vision of how to win the war on coronavirus, and what they are doing to achieve it.

Michael Shellenberger

19 Mar 2020 · 9 min read

An Optimist’s Case for COVID-19 Lockdown, Our Safest and Quickest Path Back to Normalcy

But what’s now clear is that these strict interventions are necessary both for our health and our economy: Without decisive action, the pandemic will linger on, suffocating our economies week by week amid a climate of fear.

Jonathan Kay

18 Mar 2020 · 10 min read

COVID-19 Will Devastate the Economic Fortunes of Those Who Are Already Struggling

COVID-19 is going to send them crashing through it. And the challenge of how to help them rebuild their lives will be with us long after the pandemic itself has been tamed.

Jonathan Kay

16 Mar 2020 · 5 min read

Conceit and Contagion: How the Virus Shocked Europe

The World Health Organization announced last week that Europe is now the epicentre of the new coronavirus epidemic. As the announcement was made, many countries in Africa and Asia were imposing strict restrictions on the arrival of flights and visitors from Europe. It felt like a great historical reversal, one

Bruno Maçães

14 Mar 2020 · 6 min read

China: Exploiting False Accusations of Racism

When confronted, China frequently accuses its critics of racism. Last month, for example, Beijing expelled three Wall Street Journal reporters in retribution for an opinion column titled “China Is the Real Sick Man of Asia.” China Daily, a Communist Party mouthpiece, declared the headline “astonishingly racist”—despite the fact the

Thomas Brown

12 Mar 2020 · 3 min read

Experiencing Rome's First Day on Coronavirus Lockdown

I went out on Tuesday morning wondering what a country on lockdown looks like. I live in the un-touristy Garbatella neighbourhood of Rome, where it was sunny and 15 degrees. It wasn’t as quiet as I expected. Oblivious to government directives, the parrots were squawking in the eucalyptus trees

Jeannie Marshall

10 Mar 2020 · 8 min read