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Trouble is some people have to stay at work to supply, power and respond to those people at home.

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“Travellers scowl at us, and countrymen give us scornful names. 'Strider' I am to one fat man who lives within a day's march of foes that would freeze his heart, or lay his little town in ruin, if he were not guarded ceaselessly.”
Think about the trash collectors. They can't stop.
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'I was feeling faint from fatigue and intense weeks. I am feeling better now. I am going home now to rest this evening so I can return tomorrow to fight the corona crisis,' he said in a message on social media.

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He was doubtless under tremendous stress trying, like most everyone else, to fix with short term expedients the long term structural weaknesses of the global world: the industries in China, the public health demand far above any scenario they envisioned.
The coronavirus is acting like a gigantic Pearl Harbour, unleashed on a world torpidly dreaming of the End of History, devastating for its suddenness and scale, catching every govt by surprise.

Flash. This is not a drill. This is not a drill.
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One of the several recently started clinical trials for a Coronavirus treatment.

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PUL-042 was initially developed to help immunoimpaired patients, including those with cancer from respiratory infections. It does this stimulating a cellular response that works against a broad range of pathogens. If it works vs covid-19 they'll have something to slow it down.
As you can well imagine this is only part of the process. It must be tested further and even if it meets with success they have to set up a production line. Overall there are a lot of similar, parallel efforts not just in the US but in Europe, the UK, Canada, Oz, Japan and China.
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One of the most overlooked aspects of the virus crisis is Europe's psychological realization the East Asians may actually be more capable than they are. That this was exhibited by friendlies like Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea does not diminish the shock.
This will inevitably sound the death knell for the Left's cherished -- and obsolete -- division of the world into two hostile camps: the white race and the 'people of color'. How are the Japanese POCs any more?
Like so much of the progressive narrative it belongs in the early 20th century. Sooner or later Europe will realize the biggest chain round them and holding them back are these hoary old nostrums from the age of the dinosaurs.
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Decades of research shows job training programs don't work at scale because of lack of *supply* of appropriate good jobs. There are always nice learned-to-code stories (I'm one: started coding as a kid and it literally saved my life) but those don't scale. nytimes.com/2019/05/12/us/…
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