How much unhappiness is created by the unemployment of millions of people in Western countries (mainly N-Am +Europe) caused by the corona panic? How much unhappiness has been created due to the vast expansion of loneliness and physical inactivity? And in terms of the tradeoff between the quality of life and the length of life, how many “equivalent lives” are the isolation policies costing us via our reduced quality of life?
Well, well, well. The legal system has bungled its way to releasing a guilty man. Even if George Pell were not guilty of any acts of child molesting (as it was called during most of the time he was doing it) he’d belong in jail for his criminal disregard and wilful hostility towards the interests of the thousands of innocent children who were abused and whose lives were so devastated as people were shifted from parish to parish.
From Twitter.
Till now I’ve organisd a TROPPO GROUP CRIKEY SUBSCRIPTION for around 50
I advertised I was doing renewals on Twitter and Troppo a month ago and got about 1 or 2 takers
Now someone else wants a renewal
If I can get some serious buy-in I’ll rinse and repeat
If not that’s it!
This post is barely worked up from an email I wrote in response to a student in development studies. She’d been working on environmental this and that and the Sustainable Development Goals (about which I’d class myself a card-carrying member of the economists club as being highly sceptical).
Whoever is doing PR for this virus has certainly come up with a natty logo.
Is this a bunch of black patches on a white background. It is. It also depicts something which you can’t unsee once you’ve seen it.
Not sure Winston ever said that, but it sounds like the kind of thing he might have said. Quote investigator doesn’t tell me sadly. Grateful for any others’ researches in comments below.
Since we’re blogging the next crisis, I thought now was a good time to reheat the blogging of the last one. intriguing to think of all the changes, and in many ways how much steam has gone out of blogging, and yet how resilient it has been when we need it! Enjoy!
The mass hysteria of the corona crisis is raging, with the resulting self-isolation of whole economies and populations.
