Morning roundup

The worthies on the culling of the browser tabs:

• The Adam Smith Institute reminds the UK government it needs a plan for exiting lockdown.


• The Atlantic, on how the WHO failed, but why defunding it may not be the best response.


• William Nordhaus on the need for a Climate Club: basically, the Club consists of countries willing to commit to carbon prices hitting no less than agreed targets, and carbon-equivalent tariffs on imports from outside of the Club. He suggests it may be too hard to run full carbon-equivalent tariffing and that the Club might instead set a uniform tariff on all imports from non-members. I wonder whether that could really pan out - the US would be unlikely to join, and very likely to impose its own retaliatory tariffs on the Club. 


• I would have thought that the current mess suggested a mild expansion of hospital facilities was warranted rather than a smaller facility than had been planned. The planned Dunedin Hospital shrinking due to budget constraints. 


• Once things re-open, do not sit near the air conditioner vent.


• Dispatch from a New York Coronavirus Morgue Truck Worker. And from a nurse. I really wonder about calls to follow Sweden or other places that have let things get out of hand. Even if that plan somehow passed cost-benefit, it seems impossible that most places would ever stick with it in the face of stories like this. Instead there would be a shift to an even harder lockdown that would have to be worse because the starting point would have had to have been worse.