Days with hotter temperatures are becoming more and more common, as temperatures as well as the likelihood for extreme weather increase due to climate change. Hot temperatures affect human health and cognition negatively when the exposure is contemporaneous—students perform worse on tests and elderly die from it. It also turns out that exposure to heat …
Link to Google Doc It has been a while since my last post on the pandemic, so it might be time for an update of what I am thinking about it now. Debates on policy responses have somewhat settled, at least in the public spheres of social media and regular media. I expect the scientific …
Link to Google Doc The divergent strategy towards the coronavirus that Sweden has been taking has made the news all over the world. It has also been highly debated if this really is the way to go. I am not sure, early on I propagated for more draconian measures from the state. Although, this loose …
Link to Google Doc Today I am going to expand last week’s post on the coronavirus by incorporating the macroeconomic, and microeconomic, implications of the virus into my account of the current situation. It is clear that the virus is becoming a strain on the global economy, as more and more businesses are restructuring their …
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Link to Google Doc About COVID-19, or the coronavirus This has been everywhere the last weeks, which means that I won’t add something specific to news about the virus. Especially since I am in no way an expert on epidemics and viruses. I still feel that there are some things that are worth discussing in …