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“The Spinning Chair”. With apologies to C. S. Lewis

July 30, 2017 | humor, poetry | No Comments

By Steven Willing

“Destiny”. With apologies to J. R. R. Tolkien

July 28, 2017 | humor, poetry | No Comments

By Steven Willing

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Clinical neuroscientist, physician, author, apologist, triathlete

Steven Willing @StevenWillingMD·

30 May

Today New York is cheering its own success in containing COVID.

Yep, they sure squashed that sucker flat.

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30 May

One surefire way to a rapidly declining death rate: first attain the world’s highest per capita fatality rate.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-reaches-coronavirus-case-milestone-declines-11590766723

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30 May

NY witnessed a per capita fatality rate well over 3 times that of Sweden, and the WSJ attributes this “spectacular” success to its containment policies? The perils we face in the attribution of causality....

https://www.wsj.com/articles/new-york-reaches-coronavirus-case-milestone-declines-11590766723

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Steven Willing @StevenWillingMD·

30 May

A most unfortunate headline for a company that builds jet engines.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rolls-royce-nosedives-after-being-downgraded-to-junk-status-by-standard-amp-poors-3qjxlg5ll

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28 May

#COVID19 Did we flatten the curve? Did lockdowns work? Is containment seriously an option?

What's the endgame here?

The scientists are right. And that is why we need to reopen the world’s economy.
#ReOpenAmerica

http://swilling.com/pandemic-endgame/

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“The Spinning Chair”. With apologies to C. S. Lewis

“Destiny”. With apologies to J. R. R. Tolkien