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From digitalcommons.law.buffalo.edu/cgi/viewconten…. Note the suggestion that it would be *reasonable* for a public official to understand the nature of state and federal authority to impose or lift quarantines.
I think, again, Donald Trump has failed my "reasonable official" test. A "reasonable official" would have at least passing familiarity with the Constitution of the superpower over which he or she officiates.
And a "reasonable official" may be expected to familiarize himself with local culture, history, and mores. A reasonable American official would know that the locals might be perplexed--even vexed--were he to liken our presidency to an absolute monarchy in the style of Louis XIV.
For those of you who missed my explication of the "reasonable official" argument, it's here:
claireberlinski.substack.com/p/a-preventabl…
I suppose I should be more precise: "The former superpower."
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Voici une question pour tout qui me suivent. Ces jours-là, je publie de courts rapports, comme ceux-ci, dans une série qui s'appelle, "VIEW FROM YOUR QUARANTINE." claireberlinski.substack.com/p/view-from-yo…
Voici quelques exemples de lettres que j'ai publiées: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/your-pandemic Si vous souhaitez contribuer, je vous invite. J'aimerais surtout entendre des gens de pays dont il y a peu de reportages dans les médias anglophones.
Vous serez anonyme. Je ne publie le nom de personne.

NB: l'objet du mail doit être, en majuscules, MY LIFE IN QUARANTINE (même si vous n'êtes pas en confinement). Sinon, je suis sûre de le manquer.
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This is actually a request to all of my followers. If you live in a country that's severely under-covered in the US media (that's to say, any country, and indeed any part of the US that isn't New York, DC, or Silicon Valley), I'd like to hear from you:
I'm publishing short accounts, like these, in a series called "View from your quarantine." claireberlinski.substack.com/p/view-from-yo…
Here are some I've published already: claireberlinski.substack.com/p/your-pandemic
I'm especially interested in hearing from you if you live somewhere where the government responded, in your view, in a very competent and timely way--or conversely, if you think your government screwed it up completely.
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This is an important study; @ChristianSulek brought it to my attention: sora.at/nc/news-presse… As far as I know, it's the only such sample that's been conducted in Europe or the US (please correct me if I'm wrong--I'd very much like to know.)
It suggests that the hope many of us have already been infected, without realizing it, is misplaced. A random sample (using Roche’s cobas SARS-CoV-2 test, which is *not* an antibody test) found only 0.33% were infected.
It's possible that many, many more had been infected in the past and cleared the virus already, but given the date--April 10--this seems highly unlikely. So this suggests that CFR is, indeed, as bad as it looks.
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