Go back to Tolstoy, forget the dystopias you got secondhand from crappy TV, say your prayers, buy a block of pink salt shaped like a bar of soap and cleanse your energy with it. It burns. Buy limes and lemons and learn the proportions for sours.

There are now simply too many patients for each one of them to receive adequate care.

Thread by @silviast9: 1/ I may be repeating myself, but I want to fight this sense of security that I see outside of the epicenters, as if nos going to happen "here". The media in Europe are reassuring, politicians are reassuring, while there's little to…

Like other central banks, the E.C.B., which met on Thursday, is scrambling to prepare for what a report warns could be a coming economic upheaval.

The U.S. Treasury is now allowing some humanitarian trade but it may not be enough—and the damage is already done.

China, Iran, North Korea, and other authoritarian regimes have concealed information and exacerbated the spread of the disease.

The coronavirus outbreak in China has come down hard on the country's poor who cannot afford to be quarantined, have less access to supplies, and do not have the money or the connections to leave the country.

Governments with authoritarian tendencies will always overstep in times of mass fear. Don't let them.

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