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How the coronavirus took advantage of humanity’s essential weakness

Will we be social distancing until 2022? Hopefully not 
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How the coronavirus took advantage of humanity’s essential weakness
Covid-19 has exposed a paradox: we are so tightly interconnected that a virus can reach each one of us, yet so insular that we cannot conceive of what happens in one place repeating itself in another. As countries close their borders, hoard supplies, and throw blame at each other, the world risks becoming more insular still, further hampering global efforts to limit climate change.
And yet our latest special issue of MIT Technology Review, on covid-19, is not unremittingly bleak. As we scrambled to produce pieces that would not feel dated by the time you read them, we realized that most of them were stories of hope amid the gloom: Herculean efforts to find a drug; scientists and technologists from all disciplines lending their expertise to the fight; blueprints for reopening society, rethinking data privacy, restarting the economy, redesigning mental health care, and safely holding an election; lessons to be learned from countries that have tackled their outbreaks more successfully; and stories of preparedness and resilience in isolation.

Read our full special issue on how we're navigating a world re-shaped by covid-19.
Will we be social distancing until 2022? Hopefully not 
The news: A new modeling the spread of covid-19 in the United States says that “prolonged or intermittent social distancing may be necessary into 2022.”
WHAT: Yes, the date is startling. Most of us are hoping for some relief far sooner than that. But we shouldn’t fixate on a number that makes for an arresting headline. Instead, we should focus on the may.
The substance: The study by researchers from Harvard’s school of public health is the first major one to use data from two other closely related coronaviruses, OC43 and HKU1, to predict how covid-19 will behave. If covid-19 behaves similarly, summer will significantly slow its spread—but not enough to stop it. 
Winter threat: There’s also a risk that prolonged social distancing over the summer would prime a worse outbreak in the winter of 2020-21, because there would still be lots of people who hadn’t yet had the virus. The model suggests immunity lasts about a year, but it doesn’t consider how aggressive contact tracing might suppress the virus’s spread, for example, or how people might react differently to infection. With so many unknowns, there is no reason to believe with confidence that it has to take until the summer of 2022. Read the full story.
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The top ten must-reads
I’ve combed the internet to find you today’s most fun/important/scary/fascinating stories about technology.

1 General Motors is about to start shipping its first ventilators
It’s been contracted by the US government to deliver 30,000 by the end of August. (Ars Technica)

2 This simulation demonstrates why social distancing matters
And why it makes sense to wear a mask. (NYT $)

3 Why simply waiting for herd immunity to covid-19 isn’t an option
Waiting for enough people to catch the coronavirus could take a very long time.(TR)

4 The six things California must do before restarting its economy 
For starters, it needs to ramp up testing and contact tracing. (TR)
  + Don’t ask when this will “end.” The real question is “where do we go from here?” (The Atlantic
5 How coronavirus almost brought down the global financial system
It’s always scary when you realize the extent to which money is just a collective delusion. (The Guardian)

6 How Apple and Google are tackling their covid privacy problem
Their contact tracing system will only work if they can convince enough people to trust them. (TR)
  + Why it won’t be enough to stop the virus, even if it works. (Wired $)
 
7 On hold? You’re not alone 📞
There have rarely been so many people trying to get help from so few customer service workers. (WP $)

8 Unemployment checks are being held up by ancient IT systems
This is what happens when states are starved of the funding they need to modernize. (The Verge)

9 Trump cut US payments to the World Health Organization
His administration’s push to cut funding to the WHO pre-dates this pandemic, though. (AP)

10 Half a million Zoom accounts are for sale on the dark web
This is why reusing the same password for everything is such a bad idea. (NBC)
  + Zoom burnout is real. (OneZero $)
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Quote of the day
“Tbh, I’ve sort of run out of things to say … But here’s a photo showing I’m alive and healthy.”
—Justin Blomgren inadvertently captures the odd, transitional situation influencers find themselves in, Wired reports.

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The story of the two disciples walking on the road to Emmaus on the day of the resurrection has always intrigued me. There is so much to this story that I love, specifically the fact that Jesus kept them from recognizing him. This allowed them to have a real conversation, including Jesus exegeting the Scriptures about himself from Moses to the prophets. And finally, when their eyes were opened to the fact that they were walking, talking, and eating with Jesus, they say to each other in Luke 24:32, "Did not our hearts burn within us while he talked to us on the road, while he opened to us the Scriptures?"

In this sermon called Burning Hearts, Dr. Stan Coffey walks us through this idea of burning hearts and what that means for us today. This is an insightful and encouraging message that we all need to hear. So as you are looking for ideas on what to preach on this Sunday, I encourage you to download and study this sermon.
 
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