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Hi all,

On my walk to work I realized that the new FEMA model – which was used to strong-arm the Arizona governor into opening early – is a WMD, i.e. important, secret, and destructive:

A Secret Algorithm Is Deciding Who Will Die in America

Decisions on reopening should involve public data and debate.

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Hi all,

Two more Bloomberg column posts to share with you. First, one from Monday:

Let’s Make a Deal With Our Robot Overlords

and here’s on from yesterday:

I’ll Miss the New York City Subway

More columns are here.

Guys I’m sorry I forgot to blog last Friday about a piece I wrote:

Trump Is a Machine-Learning Algorithm Gone Wrong

We Can’t Get Together Until Tests Get Better

More columns are here.

I was happy to connect with my friend Ashton Applewhite, an ageism activist whom I met at TED, to discuss aging in the time of Covid-19. It led to this new Bloomberg column:

Pandemic Data Could Be Deadly for the Old

See other columns I wrote here.

An empirical observation about models versus reality:

This Isn’t the Flattened Curve We Were Promised

See other columns I wrote here.

Another skeptical column from me today:

The Covid-19 Tracking App Won’t Work

See other columns I wrote here.

Hi all,

I’m back at Bloomberg, writing about reasons to doubt the daily data we keep seeing. I’ve added a few reasons since my post last week. Also, I’m preparing myself for bad data today and tomorrow delayed from Easter weekend:

10 Reasons to Doubt the Covid-19 Data

See other columns I wrote here.