Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

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Things are getting worse, and promise to get yet worse. LikeLike

Testing is crucial to understand the prevalence of the disease, to provide timely treatment to those infected, to understand how the disease evolves, and to ensure that we take measures to stop the disease from spreading.

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. … Problem and explanation: many of my neighbors and most of my students (and many other people besides) regard COVID-19 as a hoax or as hype … I don’t know whether this would tend to make you more optimistic…

This author has been widely derided for writing this piece. “Too emotional,” “too panicky,” “too alarmist,” “too sentimental,” “too ancedotal” etc.–the usual litany of veiled sexist atta…

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This is from Marissa Cangin, an acquaintance of mine through my old friend, William Dale. Both work at City of Hope National Medical Center in California. William is Arthur M. Coppola Family Chair in Supportive Care Medicine there, and Marissa is an Assistant Clinical Professor–a clinical psychologist–in the Department of Supportive Care. (Marissa’s specialty is…

Edit of my latest post: I referred to children. I did not refer to young adults, except implicitly. LikeLike

Attempting to reconcile the apparent differences between Irfan and myself, I note the following. My focus was on deaths; Irfan countered with hospitalizations. I referred to children and young adults only implicitly. Irfan referred to young adults but …