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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (61): Tyler Cowen on the Nursing Home Controversy by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Ugh, you can’t see the video in the preceding comment, but if you click the “T” for “Times,” it should come through. If not, it’s in today’s New York Times, called “Bye, Mommy, …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (61): Tyler Cowen on the Nursing Home Controversy by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I’ve posted at PoT many times about the “front end” of acute care during the surge, but here’s one more item that gives the sense of it. I think it drives home (so to speak) the sheer impossibility of …
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (61): Tyler Cowen on the Nursing Home Controversy by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to merjet. That response ignores virtually everything I’ve said on this topic. You really are visibly wishing facts away right there on the screen. The facts that you’re repeating over and over are not all of the relevant facts. Yo…
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (61): Tyler Cowen on the Nursing Home Controversy by merjet
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. You wrote: “You’ve simply wished the facts out of existence and produced the following “argument”: 1. The state issued a directive that required nursing homes to accept COVID positive patients, or patients presumed so. 2. The…
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(Our World in Data) Best practices for governments reporting COVID-19 testing data
Data on COVID-19 testing is crucial. But not all countries report their data in a helpful way. To help official providers of testing data, we set out some simple recommendations based the best reporting practices across the countries included in our t…
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(QC RSS) Let’s Talk It Out
talkin’
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) The March of Time
I realise that I’ve never blogged here, even minimally, about my trips from last March. (I thought I had, but actually I just discussed them on facebook.) So on March 9-10 I participated in a workshop on exploitation, run by Matt Zwolinski and Ben Ferguson, at the University of San Diego. I flew out a…
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(Austro-Athenian Empire) Name Game
So here’s a puzzle. When I was a little kid I often went by “Rod.” But from at least 5th grade on I went by “Roderick,” as was my preference, and everyone called me “Roderick” (except my mother, who was the only person who still often called me “Rod,” and indeed did so ever after).…
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(Cat and Girl) The Joke at the End of this Comic
This is a syndicated post, originally published by Dorothy at Cat and Girl.
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( Comments for Policy of Truth ) Comment on Coronavirus Diary (61): Tyler Cowen on the Nursing Home Controversy by Irfan Khawaja
In reply to Irfan Khawaja. Here’s a simpler way of putting my point. Persichilli et al had to choose where in the health care system the stress most urgently had to be alleviated–the front end or the back? Meaning, the parts closest to the …
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