Bookmarks tagged with “coronavirus”
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Peter Geoghegan · Cronyism and Clientelism · LRB 5 November 2020
Depressing piece from November on the UK’s kleptocracy.
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An Oral History of Dominic Cummings’s Barnard Castle Scandal
“The Bishop of Manchester: I love the meme with the eye chart, where all the letters spell out Barnard Castle. That’s my favourite meme.” That meme was me me.
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The Great Dispersion | No Mercy / No Malice
On how working from home, and not going out as much, will prevent us from mixing with people who aren’t like us, and so decrease empathy.
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Said the Gramophone: CUE SYNTHESIZER
“I thought I could handle repetition. I thought I flourished in repetition. Scheduled days, habit. But tonight these groundhog days are wearing me out.”
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How the Virus Won - The New York Times
Very good telling of the story. This is all a bit much isn’t it. (via Waxy)
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Coronavirus tracked: has your country’s epidemic peaked? | Free to read | Financial Times
Good (terrifying) charts. Nice that there’s a lot of explanation too.
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The Gentle Author’s Coronavirus Diary | Spitalfields Life
This, and the linked piece, ‘On Recovering From The Coronavirus’, are lovely gentle writing. Also features Pepys.
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Opinion | Dave Eggers: Flattening the Truth on Coronavirus - The New York Times
Very good, unfortunately.
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Due to COVID-19: Documenting the signs of the pandemic
I love the collecting of ephemeral things that otherwise escape this kind of more permanent attention. (via Waxy)