The pandemic's Isaac Newton effect

Isaac Newton's "Year of Wonders" happened as a result of the Bubonic Plague. What's next for us, then?

I got this idea from a Nick Tasler newsletter -- learned of Tasler years back when I was writing this post -- and it's potentially pretty cool.

The basic idea is that, in 1665, The Bubonic Plague was raging in England. We did a mid-1600s version of "social distance" and many university students were sent off-campus to shelter-in-place and slow the spread…