Future Perfect Archive
Archives for March 2020
GiveDirectly gives people money. Now it’s doing it for the coronavirus.
The Bay Area has shut down. Can it buy us the time we need?
Our recommendations for surviving boredom, loneliness, and the coronavirus.
Even if you know nothing about artificial intelligence, you can volunteer to forecast the future of Covid-19.
How cash became the preferred economic response to the coronavirus.
Michael Bennet, Cory Booker, and Sherrod Brown want as much as $4,500 per American, adult or child, paid out in 2020.
This could be the first time in history that we fight a recession with truly unrestricted cash.
Researchers say we face a horrible choice: practice social distancing for months or a year, or let hundreds of thousands die.
What symptoms are most common, which groups are most at risk, and more.
The coronavirus curve versus the social solidarity curve.
Some GOP senators are calling for cash payments. Democratic leadership has been slower to rally around the idea.
Any coronavirus package needs to have big cash payments to Americans, right now.
Six things you can do now to get ready for an outbreak.
Popular apps are awarding points for beating “bad guys” and completing “power-ups” — and drawing from real, clinically approved treatments.
What are the symptoms of this coronavirus? Where did it come from? How will the pandemic end?