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To be able to track the development of the pandemic in the UK we built this page in which we are making the local UK data available in six charts. Updated daily.

There’s tons of online debate about whether lockdowns are helpful to fight the pandemic.  I have no idea whether they’d be helpful or not, but I suspect that they’re impossible anyway.  In his essay “I, Pencil,” Leonard Read famously highlights the vast interconnectedness of millions of people that lies behind seemingly-mundane phenomena like 20-cent pencils…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. As far as your point about people *hoping* there will be bad side effects to prove their worldview… I hadn’t even thought of people being that awful in this particular case. I don’t know why not. It is, sadl…

In reply to Pamela Olson. You may be right. I have to think about it more. In some ways, I think your point has more bite than mine. (I might have to steal it.) But there is something wrong with thinking the vaccine is risky, then hoping that others ta…

In reply to Irfan Khawaja. I think the moral hazard comes when people refuse the vaccine and then continue to be more dangerous vectors for the virus. Whatever the reason. If it was just for their own health / benefit, they could choose to do whatever …

Here’s an exchange I had on Facebook with a Facebook friend, Pamela Olson. LikeLike

The primary way to measure working hours is with surveys, but the data can have limitations that are important to understand.