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Modeling Covid-19
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Modeling Covid-19

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Byrne Hobart
Mar 25, 2020
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Western politicians like social distancing as a policy because it fits in with their comparative advantage: they may not run effective organizations or have good command of supply chains, but they are good at giving speeches—so any policy that can be implemented entirely through rhetoric is their first choice.

Anecdotally, it’s having an effect: public t…

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