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"The confusion partly arises from the pandemic’s scale and pace.
Worldwide, at least 3.1 million people have been infected in less than
four months. Economies have nose-dived. Societies have paused. In most
people’s living memory, no crisis has caused so much upheaval so broadly
and so quickly. “We’ve never faced a pandemic like this before, so we
don’t know what is likely to happen or what would have happened,” says
Zoë McLaren, a health-policy professor at the University of Maryland at
Baltimore County. “That makes it even more difficult in terms of the
uncertainty.”
But beyond its vast scope and sui generis nature, there are other
reasons the pandemic continues to be so befuddling—a slew of forces
scientific and societal, epidemiological and epistemological. What
follows is an analysis of those forces, and a guide to making sense of a
problem that is now too big for any one person to fully comprehend."
Via Dewayne Hendricks and Dave Farber.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://www.xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
http://www.glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
http://www.sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
