Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

In reply to David Potts. Last point, “lockdown.” The rationale for “lockdown” is this: COVID-19 is highly contagious. Its spread has to be contained. The primary means of transmission is human-to-human, and a significant mechani…

In reply to David Potts. Let me now deal with testing. You say: You seem oddly pessimistic about the prospects for an approach based on testing and looking out for the most vulnerable. I would say that if we have $500B of fiat money to send checks to …

In reply to David Potts. WordPress has a bad tendency to fail to save the most recent version of a comment, so that when you look at it on screen, you realize in horror that it’s the version you wrote ten edits ago. But I have a feeling I read th…

In reply to merjet. Granted we are not explicitly contradicting each other. Your claim was that children do not get ill or die of COVID-19, and my claim was that the non-elderly, referring mostly to young adults and teenagers, can certainly suffer grav…

Responding to radgeekdotcom: Thanks for the Pew study. The point I was making wasn’t generational; it’s just that I happen, given my job, to deal disproportionately with younger people. But the sample in my other post, “Vox Populi,&#…

The situation in Pakistan: https://www.dw.com/en/coronavirus-is-pakistan-taking-covid-19-too-lightly/a-52824403 LikeLike

From InfiniteAscension at the blog Immaterial Thoughts, describing attitudes in Iran and the UK (and making an interesting theological point from a Muslim perspective): https://infiniteascension.wordpress.com/2020/03/15/how-to-trust-in-god-in-a-pandemi…

I hope this is never forgotten. https://www.vox.com/recode/2020/3/19/21185417/elon-musk-coronavirus-tweets-panic-ventilators-chloroquine-tesla-factory I do appreciate the way in which rich assholes like Musk violate police orders with impunity, and jus…

From Washington state. My cousin Noreen Mahmood, who’s a nurse in the Fraser Health System near Vancouver, points out that British Columbia has the highest death rate from COVID-19 in Canada. Our focus on American states tends to ignore the more …