We’re in an outbreak currently. But I don’t mean the COVID pandemic. It turns out that outbreak has a second definition: it means when populations grow dramatically large, beyond their carrying capacities. As David Quammen details in his book Spillover, disease outbreaks can be considered “as a subset” in this broader category. [495] In Spillover, Quammen goes […]
The surgery was a success but the patient died
The surgery was a success but the patient died Are the side-effects of our “cure” for the covid-19 virus worse than the disease itself? There are some remedies worse than the disease. – Publius Syrus, Roman writer, 50 BC Our response to the Covid-19 virus is a choice: the frying or the fryer. Our Age, […]