Brigadoon Daily Rundown = April 22, 2020

Coronavirus: curse of the ‘Bat Woman’ — what went on in Wuhan lab? As America puts the screws on Beijing, there is closer scrutiny of claims that the coronavirus leaked from a research center. https://bit.ly/2KoQiEZ

Coronavirus lockdown in Sweden: a new take on safe shopping — no assistants: In a hamlet a few miles from the medieval Swedish town of Uppsala, the local shop, Lifvs, sits among fir forests and open fields. Inside are neat shelves stacked with avocados, oat milk, chicken breasts and pickled herring. There is no shopkeeper. Instead, locals in this bucolic hideaway download a mobile app that opens the shop door and allows them to scan products, paying for them online. The shop is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Initially designed to provide a retail option for people living in remote areas, the 14 Lifvs shops across Sweden have, as the coronavirus spreads through the country, become a lifeline for older people who want to stock up while staying socially distant. https://bit.ly/3cAfjJk

Carl Benedikt Frey: COVID-19 will only increase automation anxiety: Consumers may prefer automated services to face-to-face interactions for some time to come.

Consumer Brands Association: To those making the products that make a difference, thank you (video) https://bit.ly/2yvoNXF

Shawn Donnan: America needs real-time economic data to get through this crisis: The country has put its faith in statistics. But the numbers are failing it this time. https://bloom.bg/3bsAmh5

Neuro-Insight’s CEO on how marketers should step up during the coronavirus pandemic https://bit.ly/2zkztZP

“In terms of what (marketers) need to be doing, I think their biggest responsibility is to understand how people are feeling right now and actually give them that and not try to serve them their brand,” Yadav tells The Drum.

Brigadoon Daily Rundown = April 21, 2020

Niall Ferguson: The economic legacy of lockdown: The fallout from our disastrous COVID-19 policy could tip us into the worst depression since the 1930s. https://bit.ly/2VXYZf5

Gordon Brown’s case for global coöperation during the coronavirus pandemic https://bit.ly/3cAi2CQ

HR McMaster: How China sees the world: And how we should see China. https://bit.ly/34PCqgB

Michael Green and Evan S. Medeiros: The pandemic won’t make China the world’s leader: Few countries are buying the model or the message from Beijing. https://fam.ag/34TkrFK

38 days when Britain sleepwalked into disaster: The Times reports, Boris Johnson skipped five Cobra meetings on the virus, calls to order protective gear were ignored and scientists’ warnings fell on deaf ears. Failings in February may have cost thousands of lives. https://bit.ly/3cyFBf1

#MustRead

Debbie Millman: The real reason people are hoarding toilet paper and guns https://bit.ly/2xKkXdd

@behaviorgap

1- There are facts.
2- Then there’s our feelings about those facts. 
3- Then there’s the stories we tell yourselves about our feeling about those facts.

Those are 3 very different things.

Robert Moran: Future-proofing post-pandemic strategy https://bit.ly/2KlowJA

Samuel Brealey: Marketing, for the little guy: Marketing isn’t about social media or advertising; that’s part of marketing but you need to start way further back than that. Otherwise, in the long run, you’ll fail. https://bit.ly/2ysPM6c

Resilience is about how you recharge, not how you endure https://bit.ly/2XsP1Vj

Brigadoon Daily Rundown = April 17, 2020

Hans Yue Zhu: COVID-19: A turning point for globalization? Weakened global institutions and leaders who reject scientific advice, not globalization, are the culprits of the COVID-19 pandemic. https://bit.ly/3erpkub

"The root cause of the chaos lies in the laggard, obsolete international organizations as well as poor global governance." 

Patrick Tucker: The problem with coronavirus models is how we talk about them: Despite what political leaders want them to say, COVID-19 models will become less predictive exactly when we need them most. https://bit.ly/2XDBbPM

Niall Ferguson: Why Trump and Xi might both lose the Corona wars https://bit.ly/2VBK1Lf

Screens are lifesavers right now, but they're still relationship wreckers: Digital technology has been a lifeline during the COVID-19 health crisis. Yet, its impact on human relationships remains complex. It allows for work and connection in many domains but does so in ways that are often intrusive, exhausting, and potentially corrosive to face-to-face relationships. https://bit.ly/3czjGoj

George T. Conway III et al.: We've never backed a Democrat for president. But Trump must be defeated. This November, Americans will cast their most consequential votes since Abraham Lincoln's reelection in 1864. We confront a constellation of crises: a public health emergency not seen in a century, an economic collapse set to rival the Great Depression, and a world where American leadership is absent and dangers rise in the vacuum. https://wapo.st/2Ve6EXi

What to expect when you get back to the office after lockdown: A guide to the parts of pandemic work culture that are here to stay and those that aren’t. https://bloom.bg/34GGDmJ

How Steak-Umm—yes, that Steak-Umm—became a voice of reason in the pandemic: The voices behind the frozen meat sheets brand discuss responsible media consumption and the analysis of good data in a crisis. Seriously. https://bit.ly/2XonxQp

Postcards from a pandemic: Illustrators around the world, from Brooklyn to Guangzhou, share scenes from their eerily empty cities. https://bit.ly/2K95NAQ

Stop trying to be productive: The internet wants you to believe you aren’t doing enough with all that “extra time” you have now. But staying inside and attending to basic needs is plenty. https://nyti.ms/39US0sd

As the coronavirus shutdown continues, how are clubs managing players' mental health? https://es.pn/2VhhLyJ

Brigadoon Daily Rundown = April 16, 2020

Stan McChrystal and Terry McAuliffe: How to win the fight against a virus that knows no boundaries https://cnn.it/2XGwFzZ

"We must set aside our political differences and rally around the common cause. The network is exponentially more powerful than any individual entity."

If you haven't had a chance, please take a few moments to watch PM Boris Johnson addressing the UK and thanking, by name, the doctors and nurses that he credits with saving his life. You will rarely see an elected leader appear more human and more transformed. Watch here: https://bit.ly/34JtIjJ

Researchers document a 30-year plan to rebuild ocean life: It’s actually been done before. Now the challenge is to scale up—way up. https://bit.ly/3bbtyUX

To open the American economy, the Business Roundtable endorses the following overriding principles: https://go.aws/2Vy9DIS

Damian Collins: Ad industry can help to spread 'truth virus' in the fight against fake news https://bit.ly/2UU5XCe

The Conservative MP has launched a website to tackle an 'infodemic' of false information about coronavirus and he urges the ad industry to communicate the message.

Tips from someone with nearly 50 years of social distancing experience https://n.pr/3aXlSpd