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Coronavirus offers “a blank page for a new beginning” says Li Edelkoort

Li Edelkoort?

Born in the Netherlands in 1950, Edelkoort is regarded as one of the world’s most influential trend forecasters, advising fashion companies and consumer brands around the world. In 2003, Time magazine named her one of the 25 most influential people in fashion. She was director of Design Academy Eindhoven from 1998 to 2008.

En wat voorspelt ze in Dezeen?

Therefore, if we are wise – which sadly we now know we aren’t – we will start up again with new rules and regulations, allowing countries to get back to their knowhow and specific qualities, introducing cottage industries that would flourish and grow into an arts-and-crafts century, where manual labour is cherished above everything else.

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The Trump Presidency Is Over

Peter Wehner in The Atlantic:

It has taken a good deal longer than it should have, but Americans have now seen the con man behind the curtain. The president, enraged for having been unmasked, will become more desperate, more embittered, more unhinged. He knows nothing will be the same. His administration may stagger on, but it will be only a hollow shell. The Trump presidency is over.

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Snapchat Sees Surge in Downloads of Digital Face Masks

Hehehehehe:

Snap Inc. has seen a 10-fold surge in downloads since the beginning of the month of a tool that makes calls on services like Zoom Video Communications Inc. and Google Hangouts a bit more lighthearted. The feature, called Snap Camera, allows people to overlay their faces with an augmented-reality filter, turning them into a talking toilet-paper roll or slice of pizza, or evening out skin tone for those who would prefer not to apply makeup while working at home. 

Maandag eens proberen.

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Epidemic Calculator

Interessant en verwarrend, op Github:

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Ikea and Pizza Hut make a lifesize version of the little tables that come in pizza boxes

Ge-wel-dig:

The table is apparently designed specifically around the proportions of a pizza box, to dispense with the balancing act that usually ensues on a lot of furniture when a delivery arrives. And with expert follow-through from the creative team, the table even comes in packaging that mimics a pizza box. And Pizza Hut are simultaneously bringing the retailer’s most famous foodstuff to its canvas, offering a new Swedish meatball pizza.

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Netflix Party

Lijkt me wel handig, nu:

Netflix Party is a new way to watch Netflix with your friends online. Netflix Party synchronizes video playback and adds group chat to your favorite Netflix shows.

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Coronadingen

Ik probeer er niet té veel over te lezen, want anders word ik helemaal zot. Maar als mij iets opvalt, ga ik deze post af en toe bijwerken met links en quotes.

Marc Van Ranst, 16 maart 2020:

De piek zal nog niet voor deze week zijn. Die is moeilijk te voorspellen, maar we zitten er nog zeker een maand vanaf. En dan ben ik nog optimistisch. Hopelijk kunnen de maatregelen het afvlakken.

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Steven Van Gucht, 19 maart 2020, Het Laatste Nieuws:

We gaan ervan uit dat dit nu wel moet werken. We zullen het effect pas over een dag of tien beginnen te merken, als er een knik in de curve komt. Dan kunnen onze hospitalen het aan. We maken de eerste evaluatie op 5 april. En dan hoop ik dat we op 6 april terug een pintje op een terras kunnen drinken, want daar snak ik ook naar (lacht). Maar: de maatregelen te snel loslaten, houdt ook het risico in dat het virus weer opspringt.

Laura Lezza, Getty Images:

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3 Ways The Next 2 Weeks Could Go: Even The Best Case Scenario For Sanders Doesn’t Look So Great

Nate Silver:

Unless something big changes, things will get very out of hand for Sanders very soon.

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The Digital Attention Crisis

Wat een talk!

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You’re Likely to Get the Coronavirus

James Hamblin voor The Atlantic:

With its potent mix of characteristics, this virus is unlike most that capture popular attention: It is deadly, but not too deadly. It makes people sick, but not in predictable, uniquely identifiable ways. Last week, 14 Americans tested positive on a cruise ship in Japan despite feeling fine—the new virus may be most dangerous because, it seems, it may sometimes cause no symptoms at all.

Opvallend:

Lipsitch predicts that, within the coming year, some 40 to 70 percent of people around the world will be infected with the virus that causes COVID-19. But, he clarifies emphatically, this does not mean that all will have severe illnesses. “It’s likely that many will have mild disease, or may be asymptomatic,” he said.

En:

The emerging consensus among epidemiologists is that the most likely outcome of this outbreak is a new seasonal disease—a fifth “endemic” coronavirus. With the other four, people are not known to develop long-lasting immunity. If this one follows suit, and if the disease continues to be as severe as it is now, “cold and flu season” could become “cold and flu and COVID-19 season.”

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