A Machiavellian approach

Here are differences among an issue, a problem, and a crisis.

I will propose a strategy that takes one of these differences into account.

Boys in a circle

When I was in elementary school,¹ there was a group of boys who would do a certain thing.

Our Truman Show

The thing I like about The Truman Show is what Truman accomplishes. Here it is for clarity:

All of the people in Truman's world
did everything in their power
to prevent him knowing something
and he found it out
by thinking and exploring.

Telekinesis and Occam's razor

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Scotland Yard have insisted on screening my mail and they once even pinned me to the ground until I agreed to let them.

A quick note on the ICC (International Consensus Criteria)

For newcomers: disease definitions are critical. This post will not illuminate the general issues, but others will.

A modest and possibly lucrative proposal

The Annals of Surgery is "the world's most highly referenced surgery journal".

Severity

An experienced physician described the disease like this.

Would you say that about AIDS?

It often seems that the Kafka Pandemic is a lesson in social psychology that 100 doctorates stacked on top of one another could never match. When you experience it, your view of human reasoning and behavior is forever changed.