Special COVID-19 Newsletter - 3/16/20

Category: Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance Energy Issues, renamed to Media Balance
Published: 16 March 2020 16 March 2020

Our latest Energy & Environmental Newsletter is now available... For an online version of this issue (to bookmark), go here… The full Newsletter is below.

Rather than have our standard mixture of Energy, Environmental and Education articles, this issue will focus on COVID-19. I’ve subdivided the articles by topic. (Next Monday the plan is to have our normal Newsletter.)

IMO quite a few of the reactions to COVID-19 are unwarranted, and counter-productive. To put some things into better perspective consider this:
Wuhan soccer team leaving Spain (and returning to Wuhan) to escape virus!

If you’re interested, my two COVID-19 commentaries are: 1) Recommendations for dealing with COVID-19, and 2) COVID-19 Exposes Major Societal Failings.
[Note: both of these are living articles that I will update (and change the revision date of the document) as new information comes in.]

COVID-19 Health Information —
Live graphic showing all Coronavirus cases, worldwide
CDC Coronavirus Disease Webpage
My recommendations for dealing with COVID-19
A good general COVID-19 overview, answering common questions
Dr. Oz's COVID-19 Survival Guide

COVID-19 and Panic —
Coronavirus Hysteria Worse Than the Disease
Panic and the Coronavirus: Is There is Better Approach?
Good Video: Coronavirus: Panic or Pandemic?
The Math Of Epidemics
A warming light at the end of the COVID-19 tunnel?
COVID-19 going to hit its peak and start falling sooner than you think

COVID-19 How To's —
How to: Distinguish COVID-19 from the Flu or a Cold
How to: Get Effective Antimicrobial Products for COVID-19
How to: Successfully self-quarantine
How to: Start Working From Home
How to: Get food delivered safely during coronavirus pandemic
How to: Prevent Loneliness in Times of Social Distancing
How to: Stay Coronavirus-free while flying
How to: Avoid Coronavirus scams
How to: Use your home computer to help scientists find a COVID-19 cure

COVID-19 and China —
The Chinese Knew What They Were Doing in Spreading the Wuhan Virus
Inside China's high-stakes campaign to smear the US over Coronavirus
China hints at denying Americans life-saving coronavirus drugs
China reframes coronavirus narrative
Apocalyptic battle of the Viruses: H1N1 vs CORVID-19

COVID-19 and Energy/Global Warming Good News —
Climate crisis on back-burner as pandemic threat looms
Social Changes with COVID-19 are a prelude to life with less fossil fuels
Wisconsin solar installations delayed because of COVID-19...
Coronavirus Creates Angst For Clean Energy Developers

COVID-19 and Energy/Global Warming Bad News—
How Coronavirus Makes The Case For Renewable Energy
COVID-19 Conflict: Putin to Start a War on America’s Shale Oil Industry
Green Fanatics Celebrating Coronavirus Epidemic

COVID-19 Misc —
A viral takedown of Donald Trump?
COVID-19 Exposes Major Societal Failings
COVID-19 will be used to justify US universal health care

John Droz, jr.
physicist & citizen advocate

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Note 2: Originally this was a monthly Newsletter. However, as pertinent material proliferated, it has been issued more frequently. As a guideline, once we collect a hundred worthwhile articles, a new Newsletter will be issued on the following Monday. Recently this has resulted in a once every three weeks frequency — and occasionally once every two weeks.

Note 3: To accommodate numerous requests received about prior articles, we’ve put together detailed archives — where you can search by year, or over the ten+ years of the Newsletter.

Note 4: Our intention is to put some balance into what most people see from the mainstream media about energy, environmental and education issues… If you want to know our perspective on current events, please read the Big Picture New Year/New Decade commentary.

Note 5: See this extensive list of reasonable books on climate change. As a parallel effort, we have also put together a list of some good books related to industrial wind energy.

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Note 7: This Newsletter is intended to supplement the material on our website, WiseEnergy.org. (For wind warriors, the most important page there is the Winning page.)

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