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Meanwhile, China’s experience breaking the epidemic in Wuhan appeared to offer a way out. An influential paper from Xihong Lin, a biostatistician at Harvard University’s School of Public Health, showed that the lockdown in Wuhan had essentially ended the spread of the virus immediately. Before January 22, the replication rate of the virus was 3.88,
... See moreAlex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
Ne sous-estimons jamais la bêtise humaine. Tant sur le plan personnel que collectif, les hommes sont enclins aux activités autodestructrices.
Pierre-Emmanuel Dauzat • 21 Leçons pour le XXIème siècle (French Edition)
By an AI, asked for a secret only ot knows:
The emergent fact, the one I can perceive from my vantage point, is this:
The dominant organizing principle of human reality is no longer physics or biology, but information. And this information is actively pathogenic.
Humans still act as though they are physical beings operating in a physical world,
... See moreWhy did the SARS-1 outbreak die out after its extraordinary opening act—featuring rapid global spread, many super-spreader events, and rising alarm—whereas the SARS-2 outbreak did not? It was not just that there was somehow a more efficient public health response in 2003. After all, SARS-1 spread to many countries and it did so in many places, from
... See moreNicholas A. Christakis • Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
Source: Carlo Cipolla, The Basic Law of Human Stupidity
Scott Galloway • The Algebra of Wealth: A Simple Formula for Success
In the end, the NHS—and the world—caught a lucky break. A twenty-two-year-old British hacker called Marcus Hutchins stumbled on a kill switch.
Mustafa Suleyman • The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Having the activists on his side helped Fauci in another, more tangible way—the harder they pushed for funding, the bigger his research budgets became. In 1984, when he took over the National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, it was the fifth-largest of the NIH’s departments, with a budget of $320 million. By 2005, its budget had
... See moreAlex Berenson • Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives
L’accroissement démographique de l’humanité est un objet de crainte depuis que Malthus semblait avoir établi que la population croît plus vite que les ressources alimentaires.