Chapter 7 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” 2021 May 7, 2020: Sometimes on a quite evening over Cuban contraband and homemade bourbon, I wonder how radicals like Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky were able to overthrow the Russian monarchy and …
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Chapter 5 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” In computer modeling, one never gets the correct answer, however, we expect experts to at least be close in a crisis with so much at stake. For trusted experts to be off by …
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Chapter 4 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” 2021 At the beginning of April 2020, the federal government predicts that in fourteen days the COVID crisis reaches its apex with respect to rate of expansion and begins to decline. According to …
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Chapter 3 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis.” 2021 It’s late March of 2020 and based on dire predictions from the United Kingdom’s Imperial College of London (UK) and University of Washington (UW) COVID models, the government is announcing an effort …
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Chapter 2 in the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 COVID is the first viral crisis of the digital age, with unprecedented access to data that should, in theory, result in high quality information driving good policy and decision making. COVID burst …
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Chapter 1 from the R.M. Dolin book, “Truth and Trust in Crisis,” 2021 When the history of the COVID crisis is eventually told, long after we’ve learned to filter through media sensationalism, political distortions, medical malpractice, and our emotional investment in hysteria, the crisis won’t …
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