OT: New Yorker article with relevance to the Covid-19 pandemic

[Bill Sloman]

From the 11th May 2020 copy of the New Yorker

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus

It's essentially a long interview with Ali Khan, a US-born retired member of the Special Pathogens unit of the US CDCP, but it includes a lot of background detail.

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Post by Bill Sloman
From the 11th May 2020 copy of the New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus
It's essentially a long interview with Ali Khan, a US-born retired member of the Special Pathogens unit of the US CDCP, but it includes a lot of background detail.
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Bill Sloman, Sydney

Children's literature. Thanks for nothing.

[Bill Sloman]

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Post by Bill Sloman
From the 11th May 2020 copy of the New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus
It's essentially a long interview with Ali Khan, a US-born retired member of the Special Pathogens unit of the US CDCP, but it includes a lot of background detail.

Children's literature. Thanks for nothing.

The New Yorker isn't aimed at children. Fred Bloggs seems to think that he can understand more technical publications, but he does seem to be deluding himself.

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Post by Bill Sloman

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Post by Bill Sloman
From the 11th May 2020 copy of the New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus
It's essentially a long interview with Ali Khan, a US-born retired member of the Special Pathogens unit of the US CDCP, but it includes a lot of background detail.

Children's literature. Thanks for nothing.

The New Yorker isn't aimed at children. Fred Bloggs seems to think that he can understand more technical publications, but he does seem to be deluding himself.

It's aimed at idiots with arrested development who pretend to be adults as they cozy up in their Starbucks seat putting on a pretense of concentration reading the New Yorker. The author is just a cliche mouth providing filler page for the magazine, the article is worthless from every perspective.

Post by Bill Sloman
--
Bill Sloman, Sydney

[Bill Sloman]

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Post by Bill Sloman
From the 11th May 2020 copy of the New Yorker
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/05/11/why-werent-we-ready-for-the-coronavirus
It's essentially a long interview with Ali Khan, a US-born retired member of the Special Pathogens unit of the US CDCP, but it includes a lot of background detail.

Children's literature. Thanks for nothing.

The New Yorker isn't aimed at children. Fred Bloggs seems to think that he can understand more technical publications, but he does seem to be deluding himself.

It's aimed at idiots with arrested development who pretend to be adults as they cozy up in their Starbucks seat putting on a pretense of concentration reading the New Yorker.

So it mostly goes over Fred Bloggs head. Large chunks of it don't appeal to me either, but some of their stuff is very good indeed - and this article did strike me as pretty good.

My pretentious uncle (strictly my aunt's husband) had a subscription to the New Yorker for ages. Once he'd got his D.Sc. he felt the need to look even more intellectual, to compensate for the fact that he had started off as a vet.

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The author is just a cliche mouth providing filler page for the magazine, the article is worthless from every perspective.

Or at least any of the perspectives that Fred Bloggs wants to use.