All is quiet on the Covid front. Let us hope is stays that way. Especially since we have no funding for anything. Executive Summary BA.2 on the rise, leading to some local rises in cases as in NY. Federal government is out of funding for Covid. China looking tenuous but has not lost yet.
"In an adversarial political system, such failures seem increasingly inevitable. One side spends all that it is given intending to come back for more, intentionally starving vital things of secured funds so that they can have a better case for more funding. The other side looks at that and says they’re not falling for such tactics, they’d rather not fund the vital things. And so it goes."
This sort of seems like victim-blaming the Democrats who are trying to get new funding passed and underplaying the unique craziness of Republicans not interested in funding pandemic preparedness. I haven't heard of any other adversarial political systems shutting down covid funding mid-pandemic.
I don't get what's up with the China numbers. Our world in data has daily case numbers hovering around 2000, but two of the articles linked give numbers much higher than that.
Do you have any comments on this study I've seen making the rounds about COVID and brain function?
"In an adversarial political system, such failures seem increasingly inevitable. One side spends all that it is given intending to come back for more, intentionally starving vital things of secured funds so that they can have a better case for more funding. The other side looks at that and says they’re not falling for such tactics, they’d rather not fund the vital things. And so it goes."
This sort of seems like victim-blaming the Democrats who are trying to get new funding passed and underplaying the unique craziness of Republicans not interested in funding pandemic preparedness. I haven't heard of any other adversarial political systems shutting down covid funding mid-pandemic.
I don't get what's up with the China numbers. Our world in data has daily case numbers hovering around 2000, but two of the articles linked give numbers much higher than that.
Starving vital things of funding is the Washington Monument Syndrome