Dealing with the coronavirus pandemic is deeply personal. People’s behaviors are wildly different, because each of our beliefs about the pandemic and the steps being taken to deal with it are different. I am a science-trained computer scientist, so my belief bias is to trust the science. These are some of the resources and analysis that I have found useful. Some are Canada-specific, but most are global in scope.
Caution: There is a lot of reading in the links I refer to here. As entrepreneurs, we should always take a bias to action. Do read the articles over time. Use the information to take your next, better informed, action. There is no perfect knowledge ever. Even less so in this environment. We succeed in business when we make decisions without having all the information.
Tomas Pueyo
Tomas Pueyo is an entrepreneur and engineer who has written a series of articles on Medium with over 60M combined views. These articles are information and data rich, including graphs that demonstrate the concepts that Tomas is presenting. For me, the articles make sense of what we are seeing around the world, including why some measures are working to reduce cases of the coronavirus and others are not.
- Coronavirus: Why You Must Act Now (March 10, 2020): What should leaders do and when
- Coronavirus, The Hammer and the Dance (March 19, 2020): The strategy every country should follow
- Coronavirus: Out of Many, One (April 1, 2020): A deep dive in the US
- Coronavirus: Learning How to Dance (April 20, 2020): How the best countries are fighting the epidemic
- Coronavirus: The Basic Dance Steps Everybody Can Follow (April 23, 2020) Part 2 of Learning How to Dance
- Coronavirus: How to Do Testing and Contact Tracing (April 28, 2020) Part 3 of Learning How to Dance
- Coronavirus: Prevent Seeding and Spreading (May 12, 2020) Part 5 (Part 4 is unpublished so far) of Learning How to Dance
Bill Gates
For more than a decade Bill Gates and his wife Melinda Gates have been the co-chairs of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. The foundation has been the biggest funder of vaccines in the world. Based on this experience, Bill Gates has written an article on his views on what it will take to develop a COVID-19 vaccine.
What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
Business COVID-19 Resources Canada
I am a member of the Chamber Plan, the largest Health Care plan for small and medium businesses in Canada. The Chamber Plan has put together a web page of resources that is the best that I have seen so far for Canadian entrepreneurs. The information is gathered together in six areas: stories, leadership & business resilience, wellness & mental health, HR and legal issues, responding to COVID-19, and financial resources.
Chamber Plan COVID-19 Business Resource Center
COVID-19 in Canada
There are many tables and graphs of the progress of COVID-19 available in Canada. The one I have found the most useful and which I check every day is the one developed by Jean-Paul R. Soucy and Isha Berry, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto.
What About You?
How are you coping during the pandemic? How is your business doing? What resources do you find the most useful to help you move ahead with your life and your business?
I’m curious to learn more. Please add to the comments below so we can view and discuss what is working for entrepreneurs.
