Favorites March 14th 2022
![Twitter avatar for @ScottGottliebMD](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ScottGottliebMD.jpg)
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Shanghai is the second city now, not accepting western mRNA vaccines is looking worse and worse. Could end up being the biggest policy mistake of the whole pandemic Nationalism is a hell of a drug
![Twitter avatar for @ddayen](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/ddayen.jpg)
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This logic applies more to normal gas engines anyway!!
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Just absolutely stupid. Don’t do this stuff, this isn’t World War 2, we should be capable of understanding nuance.
![Twitter avatar for @mattyglesias](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/mattyglesias.jpg)
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General sales taxes are clearly stupid, but unfortunately, it's become very clear that real carbon taxes aren't going to work politically.
![Twitter avatar for @jenjpan](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/jenjpan.jpg)
Another thread on Chinese sentiment about the war, only about half of posts are clearly pro Russia, not that it's very predictive of anything.
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Not sure bailing out Putin is worth the effort.
![Twitter avatar for @holz_bau](https://substackcdn.com/image/twitter_name/w_96/holz_bau.jpg)
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This building is absolutely amazing. After reading the Slate article about the dual staircase mandate resulting in upwards of 15% percent of each floor being wasted on long ugly hallways, I immediately calculated the floor plate wasted to staircases and corridors in this building, 9.5%.
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Not only are per-car emissions down, total transportation emissions are falling, although they're not falling as fast as power.
• A long thread explaining how hyperinflation is equivalent to a debt jubilee, and making recommendations for how to act on that.
• Short thread on the huge downswing in the Chinese markets today. (Both on Ukraine news and covid news)
• Thread explaining what's up with the Ukrainian 'biolabs' conspiracy theory.
• Thread from Brad DeLong explaining the risk of 'stagflation' in the next two years, which he puts at more than 50%.
• Thread comparing Russia's request for aid to Britain in WWI.