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April 14, 2020

Clinical features of patients infected with 2019 novel coronavirus in Wuhan, China - The Lancet

one third of ncov cases in December had no connection to the seafood market. two thirds did. what is that evidence of? that the market could that's been the origin since a third had no connection to it. or that the market is the likely origin, since 66% is a big portion, and maybe connections to the market for the other third were just not found?

Millennials Are the New Lost Generation - The Atlantic
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millenials have all the reason in the world to burn it all down, experiencing a second once-in-a-lifetime downturn in like a dozen years "near guaranteeing that they will be the first generation in modern American history to end up poorer than their parents" when normal things like housing and job safety are no longer even on offer even in boom times.

unlike the great financial crisis, this time people are willing to genuinely question the basic makeup of society. makes sense when it's an outside-in crisis, impacting society everywhere resulting in economic impact. last time, being an inside-out crisis stemming from financial markets, few people called for any kind of major overhaul of the system, and think they were mostly written off as kooks. things were patched over with traditional methods, liquidity, QE, regulation.

now people are going much further, thanks to bernie/AOC/yang creating real discussion about fundamental change. recent events making that argument much more palatable. many trump supporters and nonsupporters favour radical change from where we are now. visible direct conflict between major powers (russia, US, UK/EU, China) beg the question of "what's the right system?" and the many flaws in each of the existing ones. change is on everyone's minds