Sunday, April 19, 2020

Swing and a Miss

Lucianne.com links to a lengthy Quillette article by Joel Kotkin on the long term fallout of the CoV pandemic. Regular readers know I’ve often linked to his work.

Here that work is frankly uneven. He does a good job of describing the different impact of coronavirus on the urban and not urban, on the poor and not poor, even on different regions of cities. And he reflects on impacts of historic plagues.

He claims there will be long term impacts of CoV but does a not-so-good job of predicting what those might be for CoV. Frankly, I was disappointed.

What’s worse, the article is entitled “Viral Politics” and deals with politics almost not at all. Alas, not every at-bat results in a home run.