Знаки прогресса

Китайский вирус был, а китайских погромов не было.

Wow!

Japan has produced a wide range of manga and anime about the horrors of World War II, but the recent undertaking for war-related publication has been described as “beyond imagination.”

The manga is not set in Japan, but in the former Soviet Union. It was adapted from “The Unwomanly Face of War,” a book by 2015 Nobel Literature Prize-winning author Svetlana Alexievich.
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Many episodes in Alexievich’s book are not yet covered in the manga version. Kodansha plans to release a sequel.

“Many producers have assumed that manga must be easy to understand to have a broader appeal,” manga editor Ogino said. “But there are readers out there who will flock to a work that explores serious topics if it is presented with a good lead.”

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/13353361

the 4Cs of the coronavirus pandemic

Based on the paper mentioned by malobukov, we need to add the 4th "C" to the Japanese warning system.

Children!

TIL

It's really hard to think about counting as a scalable physical activity, e.g. in terms of marginal cost of adding 10 vs adding 1.

TIL

60 процентов Республиканцев считают, что смертность от COVID19 не выше, чем от сезонного гриппа.

https://news.gallup.com/poll/311408/republicans-skeptical-covid-lethality.aspx

До вакцинации, людям старше 50 надо держаться подальше от Республиканцев.

upd. Actually, I'm quite wrong here because the probability of dying from COVID19 depends on the probability of a 4C-like situation, wherein having a Republican there is just a small portion of the estimate.

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