? Their deaths per day are going down, but the number of recorded infections are going up. As are the global number of infections, which no one seems bothered about, now at the highest daily levels yet.
it all adds to the confusion, frustration and eventually irritation when not only inaccurate data is thrown about, but conflicting currencies and metrics are used (not saying one is right and the other is wrong). Gives the politicos a get out.
On a totally different matter I read a review (Sunday Times) of a book this morning that I am going to get and think you might like as well - Angrynomics by Eric Lonergan and Mark Blyth - one a hedge fund manager the other a political economist, both left wing but neither prisoners of the old fashioned left wing economics. Sounds good, both in its explanation of Brexit, Trump, populism etc and in its suggested responses. I was taken by the idea that ongoing taxes on tech firms with dominant market positions/ near monopolies like google, amazon etc should fund the beginnings of a universal basic income. The reviewer pointed out that, after a brief spasm of togetherness at the beginning of the pandemic we are now getting angry again, and this will worsen as people note that the rich found isolation easy.
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