Share the View 2: Vaccines and Drunken Driving

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015 bloombergview.com

TECH Katie Benner: "So Amazon has been in talks with RadioShack to buy some stores from the troubled electronics retailer, which could soon file for bankruptcy protection. Yes, Amazon, the company that built an ultra-lucrative and humongously disruptive business by eschewing, and destroying, the brick-and-mortar retail model, is thinking about picking up a bunch of brick-and-mortar stores." Read more... HEALTH Justin Fox: "Should you get your kids vaccinated against measles? Of course you should." As soon as vaccine-refusal begins to catch on, "it not only increases the risk to your own children but begins to put others at risk as well. It becomes a choice along the lines of choosing to drive while drunk or go around the neighborhood setting houses on fire." Read more... UKRAINE CRISIS The Editors: "Some in Washington are calling for equipping Ukraine with lethal weapons. Yet arming Ukraine is likely to backfire: It risks misleading the country -- which is now pressing to join the North Atlantic Treaty Organization -- into believing the U.S. will do what it takes to defeat Russia." Read more... SOCIAL MEDIA Noah Smith: "With the retirement of blogging pioneer Andrew Sullivan from the field, many people are questioning whether blogging as we know it is finished. ... In a nutshell, what is dying is the idea of the blog as a news source." Read more... POLITICS Jonathan Bernstein: "Republicans in Nebraska are considering eliminating how their state runs its electoral-college system. This is a marginally good idea for democracy." Read more... EUROPE Mark Gilbert: "Two weeks after Switzerland stunned currency traders by abandoning the franc's peg to the euro, it seems that the central bank is quietly getting back in the market." Read more... NEWS ROUNDUP Katie Benner (Read the news roundup) It looks like Google is developing some features that could eventually pit the search company against Uber. Read more... The New Yorker's Jill Lepore takes on what it means to archive the Internet: Read more... Tinder's premium product Tinder Plus is here: Read more... Matt Levine (Read the news roundup) Greece: Read more... M&A: Read more... Funds: Read more... Barry Ritholtz (Read the news roundup) Warren Buffett: Know when to hold 'em: Read more... What negative bond yields mean for investors: Read more... Will the top-callers get clowned again? Read more... Jonathan Bernstein (Read the news roundup) Elaine Kamarck at Brookings on studying government performance:Read more... Stacey Philbrick Yadav from the Monkey Cage on Islamist republicanism and Yemen: Read more... Ta-Nehisi Coates on "Andrew Sullivan and the Importance of Self-Criticism": Read more...