{"id":1435,"date":"2020-03-01T21:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T03:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=1435"},"modified":"2020-03-12T08:25:12","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T13:25:12","slug":"links-for-march-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/?p=1435","title":{"rendered":"Links for March 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/magazine\/2020\/02\/06\/rachel-bitecofer-profile-election-forecasting-new-theory-108944\">An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter: Rachel Bitecofer\u2019s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who\u2019s going to win 2020?<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nejm.org\/doi\/full\/10.1056\/NEJMe2002387\">NEJM: Covid-19 \u2014 Navigating the Uncharted.<\/a>  Most interesting bit is that there may be many undiagnosed cases, making the death rate much lower&#8211;1%, maybe lower.  Of course, this also means it has spread much  more widely, and 20-70% of a population will get the disease.  <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edge.org\/conversation\/heretical-thoughts-about-science-and-society\">HERETICAL THOUGHTS ABOUT SCIENCE AND SOCIETY An essay<\/a> by Freeman Dyson, 8.7.07<br>Wrong at every scale and in uninteresting ways.  Unfortunately, it means his opinion was unreliable after he published this (and likely for at least several years). <br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/theoutline.com\/post\/8744\/republicans-advice-to-democrats\">How to be a Democrat, according to Republicans: Beware the advice offered by your literal opponent<\/a>. by Shuja Haider<br>Compilation of the terrible record of never-Trump and other unhappy Republicans.<br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/thecounter.org\/usda-toxins-forager-mushrooms-amatoxins\/\">Wild mushrooms poison thousands of people every year. USDA just introduced a device to detect the deadliest toxins.<\/a> by Jessica Fu<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mcsweeneys.net\/articles\/jokes-ive-told-that-my-male-colleagues-didnt-like\">Jokes I\u2019ve Told That My Male Colleagues Didn\u2019t Like.<\/a> by Ali Kelley, Kate Herzlin, Danielle Kraese, and Ysabel Yates<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.peoplespolicyproject.org\/2020\/03\/02\/fareed-zakaria-is-completely-ignorant-about-the-nordics\/\">Fareed Zakaria Is Completely Ignorant About the Nordics.<\/a> by Matt Bruenig<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justsecurity.org\/69094\/timeline-on-jared-kushner-qatar-666-fifth-avenue-and-white-house-policy\/\">Timeline on Jared Kushner, Qatar, 666 Fifth Avenue, and White House Policy<\/a> by Ryan Goodman and Julia Brooks<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Unsettling New Theory: There Is No Swing Voter: Rachel Bitecofer\u2019s radical new theory predicted the midterms spot-on. So who\u2019s going to win 2020?NEJM: Covid-19 \u2014 Navigating the Uncharted. Most interesting bit is that there may be many undiagnosed cases, making the death rate much lower&#8211;1%, maybe lower. Of course, this also means it has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1435"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1442,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1435\/revisions\/1442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimlund.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}