by David Brooks | Mar 31, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The weirdest thing has happened to me since the COVID-19 crackdown arrived. I’m actually feeling less stressed.Why? I think it’s because I can only consider one existential crisis at a time and apparently my lizard brain is less afraid of disease-fueled social...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
Back in 1918, the excuse for downplaying a growing public-health crisis was World War I – didn’t want to hurt the war morale, and then we had to turn buildings in downtown Concord into emergency hospitals. I wrote about it for the Monitor. This year, the...
by David Brooks | Mar 30, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
It seems a million years ago but back when we were only worried about global climate catastrophe and not also imminent disease-caused societal collapse, there was a push for a non-binding warrant to support “fee to be paid by vendors of carbon-based fuels based on...
by David Brooks | Mar 28, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
UPDATE: See the bottom for Consumer Advocate Don Kreis’ explanation of why his office opposed this plan. How about some depressing news not related to COVID? An intriguing proposal to use 7.1 megawatt lithium-ion battery storage and some demand control to...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
The U.S. was already facing a very slow rate of population growth, due to smaller families among non-Hispanic whites and to our crackdown on immigration, before COVID-19 scrambled everything. Now there’s a possibility that deaths may exceed births in the country...
by David Brooks | Mar 26, 2020 | Blog, Newsletter
As the COVID-19 shutdown spreads, we know not to get close to other people. But what about pets? Swingsets in the park? The daily copy of the Concord Monitor? Should we stay away from those, too? This virus is so new that answers are still being developed, but a study...
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