The Big List of COVID-19 / Coronavirus Pandemic Resources
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Minimal politics, minimal bullshit. These are the links and people I find myself referencing, returning to and pondering.
Just the info... data and visualizations
- WHO Coronavirus Disease (COVID-19) Dashboard from World Health Organization
- COVID-19 / Coronavirus dataset for hacking on
- COVID-19 pandemic on Wikipedia
- Tracking Our COVID-19 Response from ExitStrategy.org
The struggle for calm and peace
- Interview with Jack Kornfield - How to Find Peace Amidst COVID-19, How to Cultivate Calm in Chaos by Tim Ferriss
- What N.Y.C. Sounds Like Every Night at 7 from The New York Times
- Stoicism in the Time of Plague by Donald Robertson
- Five Cookbooks To Start Learning To Cook by Jon Oropeza
It's just a little bit of history repeating
- The Great Plague of Marseille It's 1720 and we're talking quarantine, business pressures to reopen, government spending, etc.
- Tweet thread on the 430 BC Athens plague by Nicholas Christakis
- This book taught me a lot about the Spanish Flu by Bill Gates
- Tweet thread from Venkatesh Rao re: A Distant Mirror by Barbara Tuchman from Venkatesh Rao
Preventing the spread
- Tweet thread on understanding the nuanced risk of activities by Muge Cevik
- “Diseases are delighted when you refuse to take them seriously.” by Jennifer Wright
- When 511 Epidemiologists Expect to Fly, Hug and Do 18 Other Everyday Activities Again from The New York Times
- Weather Forecasting is Fifty Years Ahead of Epidemiological Prediction by Cliff Mass
- 9 Things Experts Have Learned About Covid-19 So Far by Robert Roy Britt
- Vitamin D reduces COVID-19 from Rhonda Patrick
Working on the problems
- It's Time To Build by Marc Andreesen
- List of Companies Responding to COVID-19 from Y-Combinator
- Now Anything Is Possible by Mitch Anderson
- Call For Code from IBM
Remote and the future of work in tech
- Tweet thread on remote in tech after Facebook announces their intentions to become at least half-remote by Sid Sijbrandij