Coronalinks 3/27/20: We’re Number One

A late-March-2020 Coronalinks open-thread/roundup, richer than a bare linkpost: the Hammer-and-Dance containment case, a STOP-SMOKING cost-benefit (with honest 'this is unprincipled propaganda' framing), the Japan/Iran/developing-world under-testing mysteries, takeout-food risk, ventilator numbers, the UK herd-immunity reversal, the NYC-density puzzle, a Trump/hydroxychloroquine blame-cascade ('had gadya, had gadya'), value-of-a-life-year math for the shutdown, and short links (Iceland's 50%-asymptomatic finding, Hanson on variolation, 'state capacity anarcho-capitalism'). Engaging real-time analysis, but inherently a dated, ephemeral snapshot (several points self-corrected in edits).

Quality 58 · Solid. Solid (58): a strong entry in the linkpost genre with genuine embedded Scott analysis, but fundamentally a time-stamped links roundup whose value has largely dated.

Claude’s paradigm shift 38 · Slight. Slight (38): little novelty; aggregates and comments on others' ideas (Hammer-and-Dance is Pueyo's, variolation is Hanson's).

Real-world impact 2 · Minor. Minor-plus (2): widely read and helped shape rationalist-community COVID thinking in the moment, but as one dated roundup its durable impact is limited.