Coronalinks 4/10: Second Derivative

An April 2020 Coronalinks roundup. Opens with the 'second derivative' framing (case-growth rate flattening = containment working), then curates links with Scott's commentary: why bats spread diseases (and the raw-bat-numbers rebuttal), mail-voting politics, EA charity updates (Johns Hopkins biosecurity, the deliberate-infection vaccine-volunteer registry), COVID denial in Turkmenistan/Brazil/Iran, near-unanimous economist support for lockdown, the marit-ayin / immunity-certificate red-cap idea, 'USA late but ramps up' (the Javits Center hospital), NICE on NSAIDs, and the confused Elon Musk ventilator story.

Quality 60 · Strong. Solid, upper. More than a bare link stub — a substantial curated roundup carried by genuinely good commentary in places (the second-derivative read, the marit-ayin immunity-certificate analogy, the 'rankings can't add -10000 for idiot leaders' point, USA-late-but-ramps-up). Held in the upper-Solid band by its inherently ephemeral, topical news-roundup nature.

Claude’s paradigm shift 30 · Slight. Slight (30). A news/links roundup; the second-derivative and marit-ayin framings are mildly fresh, but it's a curation of topical material.

Real-world impact 1 · Negligible. Negligible (1). An ephemeral pandemic-news roundup with no durable real-world reach.