Liberty

Also:

Michael Lewis piece: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-04-01/tracking-coronavirus-by-smell-test-is-risk-manager-s-project-now Also, compulsory masks in Austria: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/austria-coronavirus-facemasks-mandatory-update-cases-a9438616.html

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2020/04/office-365-is-now-microsoft-365-and-its-getting-new-apps-and-features/

https://peterattiamd.com/covid-19/

It's too early to have proper studies.

https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.03.22.20040758v1.full.pdf "Efficacy of hydroxychloroquine in patients with COVID-19: results of a randomized clinical trial" Also, on Germany: https://apnews.com/03d48eb93fa6cb66262de6f7d57f27df

https://80000hours.org/articles/covid-19-what-should-you-do/

Rob Bensinger of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute posted his own Google Doc of notes on COVID19, for those interested: https://docs.google.com/document/d/10MFFoUMYHqGB3cLCxuqhsM2kahtOQVybPhLG-YNZdaI/edit Also, Bill Gates calls for nationwide shutdown: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/bill-gates-heres-how-to-make-up-for-lost-time-on-covid-19/2020/03/31/ab5c3cf2-738c-11ea-85cb-8670579b863d_story.html

It's ill-advised, perhaps even Irresponsible for non-experts to promote wearing of masks during a pandemic to a population unaccustomed to wearing masks. New mask wearers will fiddle with the masks from discomfort, thereby increasing their risk of transmission by transfer from their hands. Here are two McGill University medical experts weighing in with that message: No it isn't. Regular masks (not N95) prevent asymptomatic people from infecting others. They're quite effective elsewhere and should be worn by all. They shouldn't replace other measures, and people should be educated about them (as they have been in asia), rather than assume they're too dumb and shouldn't wear them. See: https://medium.com/@Cancerwarrior/covid-19-why-we-should-all-wear-masks-there-is-new-scientific-rationale-280e08ceee71 https://medium.com/@thejanellemj/please-join-me-in-wearing-a-mask-71e0e3f4fe4a Otherwise, it's like saying that people shouldn't wash their hands because they might do it badly and get a false sense of protection from it, or whatever...

Excerpt from Scott Gottlieb's plan: https://www.aei.org/research-products/report/national-coronavirus-response-a-road-map-to-reopening/

Michael Osterholm, Director of the Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy at the University of Minnesota, interviewed by Peter Attia: https://peterattiamd.com/michaelosterholm/

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/hospitals-tell-doctors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press

https://stratechery.com/2020/unmasking-twitter/ Also:

"An ounce of prevention..." or another useless saying (for those who will now end up spending pounds and pounds on the cure). Unfortunately a lot of innocent people (restaurant workers, etc) will end up paying for much of the cost, let alone those who lose family members/themselves to this tragic pandemic. Another useless data point for the "nothing could be done anyway" and "we can't blame our leaders" (a.k.a. "keep politics out of this discussion please") crowd. Carry on. They're constantly trying out new narratives to shift the blame elsewhere. We've seen the "blame the governors" and "blame china", and I've seen that recently they've been thinking of trying "the impeachment distracted Trump from focusing on the virus". Just making stuff up to pass the buck, holding the president to the standards of a child rather than someone who should be a competent executive able to deal with multiple complex problems, which is the whole job in the first place..

WAPO: "CDC considering recommending general public wear face coverings in public" https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/cdc-considering-recommending-general-public-wear-face-coverings-in-public/2020/03/30/6a3e495c-7280-11ea-87da-77a8136c1a6d_story.html Also: "Captain of aircraft carrier with growing coronavirus outbreak pleads for help from Navy" https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/Exclusive-Captain-of-aircraft-carrier-with-15167883.php

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/desperate-for-medical-equipment-states-encounter-a-beleaguered-national-stockpile/2020/03/28/1f4f9a0a-6f82-11ea-aa80-c2470c6b2034_story.html

https://scitechdaily.com/mit-posts-free-plans-online-for-an-emergency-ventilator-that-can-be-built-for-100/

https://hbr.org/2020/03/lessons-from-italys-response-to-coronavirus Also: Also, Flexport has been doing great work. Their expertise is global supply chains, and their foundation has been bringing PPE and masks to frontline workers: https://twitter.com/typesfast/status/1242497613426909184?s=20 https://flexport.org/

I think the key words here are "my first time ever". First time ever wearing contact lenses, or I'm guessing high heels or makeup (never worn any, but I can imagine), or even wearing glasses... You get used to it, you get better at it, you find tricks, your brain stops noticing it and puts it in the auto-pilot category.

The only reason why the recommendation are not changed already because none or too be had anyways and those that can be had need to go to the hospitals first. They should still be transparent with the population about it, because it'll take longer for them to turn around when they become available if the education about them isn't already made. It'll take a while for people to get used to the and to put them on and take them off and wear them effectively, gotta train people, just like we did over the past month with hand-washing and social distancing and touching our faces and surface contact, etc.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/25/opinion/coronavirus-face-mask.html

Can't change the past, but hopefully we learn, and change the future.

Source: https://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/health-environment/article/3050689/how-make-your-own-mask-hong-kong-scientists

https://medium.com/@thejanellemj/please-join-me-in-wearing-a-mask-71e0e3f4fe4a