The descent into Darkness of the UK and Victoria. Quo Vadis?
[Bottom line: the conflicting forces now being created in the UK and Australia are truly frightening.] The UK government has just announced a nationwide return...
Will busy offices return eventually? Of course they will.
[message: the "stay at home" firms will see their bored and lonely good young staff jump ship to the hip, drunk, snorting, and cavorting hard-work...
“Living with Covid” Interesting paper on tradeoffs
Here is a new paper from Imperial College, this time by a team with David Miles, Mike Stedman, and Adrian Heald, looking into the implicit...
Covid Humour to lighten the load
If you, like me, believe our collective hysteria is needlessly causing the world tens of millions of deaths and enormous unhappiness, you surely need a...
Covid strategies for Australia: herd immunity or quarantine land?
Let’s talk about some of the covid policy options facing Australia in the coming months and years. It seems to me we can either grasp...
On Corona/Covid-19, herd immunity and WELLBY tradeoffs: key predictions and numbers
[in progress: will add more references, links and latest numbers when I get the time] In this note, I want to deal with three related...
The Drew Pavlou case: business with China versus the American lobby
In a week from now, UQ student leader Drew Pavlou will face an internal hearing at the University of Queensland to decide whether or not...