So, my local county has decided to require a cell phone app for employees of “non-essential” businesses. Ugh. Just, ugh. First, this is exactly what I was saying is the wrong approach a few weeks ago in Don’t Get Comfortable:…
Social Distancing: Where There’s A Will …
Well, that was working for a while. But it’s not anymore. Take a look at the latest chart of cases from my local county: That tells a simple story: things started slowly but we saw the potential and reacted early…
Return to Normalcy: So, There Is Such A Thing As “Too Soon”
I know I said several weeks ago that There’s No Such Thing As “Too Soon”, but this is different. Really, really different. That post was arguing that it’s never “too soon” to talk about the causes and possible solutions to…
You Should Read This: SC2 Is Still Spreading In Most of America
You should put a few minutes into reading Here’s the US Death Toll From COVID-19 Not Counting New York at Mother Jones. It’s … not good. They present a graph of the 7-day rolling average (a stat that’s good for…
Disease Management: It Shouldn’t Matter What Your Business Is
When States issued their stay-at-home orders, and now that they’re starting to lift them, they’re messing things up rather badly by talking about categories of businesses that are allowed to operate and others that must stay closed. This is really,…
Schools Out: But Probably Not For Long Enough
So, apparently Governor Newsom of the West Coast Pact thinks schools here may be able to reopen in July. Really? Here in Sonoma County, the new and active case lines are flat or possibly trending slightly upward (though the county…
You Should Read This: Fantasyland
“Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire”, by Kurt Anderson, is pretty good, but a bit nuts. Much like America. He brings together a wide range of inflences in American culture, tracing each back to how it came into the country, all…
Big Data: Meet Big Government
So, you think we can go back to gathering in crowds again, huh? Yeah, but no. First, most of the country very much does not have this pandemic under enough control to do that. But even if we did, our…
Protesting A Pandemic: Making The Case For The Nanny State
I really don’t want to have to talk about this every damn day. Really. But this is starting to get out of hand. Apparently the poor pandemic-awareness amongst the current crop of protesters is giving the CHP an excuse to…
Just Go Home: What To Do When The Autocrat Is Correct
We’re gonna keep doing this, huh? Once more, in list-format this time, for the young ‘uns out there … no, they do not have the legitimate authority to order you to stay home yes: they do have the power to…