Please, oh please, stop publishing predictions for when this will “peak”. They’re not useful. Every time the local paper talks to the county health administrator, they cite the same prediction that the county will have “up to 1,500 patients” in…
Don’t Get Comfortable: Privacy, Movement And Isolation
So, as the new West Coast Pact starts talking about how to get everything moving again we need to talk about control; control of the virus and control of the government. ‘Cause this isn’t over yet. The virus is still…
Weird Times: The Rise Of Ad-Hoc Federalism
Well, that was not what I expected to happen yesterday. It seems that there are some new Interstate Compacts forming. With the dystopian-fiction names of “The West Coast Pact” and the “6-States Council”, though that second one keeps getting updated;…
I Was Wrong About A Thing: More On Social Distancing
So It turns out I was even wronger in I Was Wrong About A Thing: There Was Still Room For Distancing To Improve Things, since I said there that we wouldn’t get better than .08% with fevers. We had 3…
Standing: An Excuse To Sit It Out
“Standing” is a legal concept that lets a court decide who should and should not be allowed to bring a case. It’s gotten pretty bad. The fundamental idea is OK: you have to have some kind of rule to say…
Clean Slates: Dealing With Legalization
If the arc of history bends towards freedom, we should probably decide what to about all those people who were convicted in the past for things that are legal now. Legalization is an admission that the old law was wrong.…
“Procedural Error”: The Latest Synonym For “Breaking The Law”
So here we go again with there being no law that will be allowed to constrain the government. It’s a small, local matter. But one that has its parallells all the way up to the federal governernment. I encountered it…
Firing Inspectors: Exposing The Weakness In The System
Trump’s been busy in the last few days, demonstrating the weakness in the United States’ “Inspector General” model of Executive oversight; for the details see Trump Firing Intelligence IG For Doing His Job? Sure, Why Not? and more recently Fired…
I Was Wrong About A Thing: There Was Still Room For Distancing To Improve Things
So it turns out I was wrong in Flatline: This Level Of Social Distancing Has Reached Its Floor to say that we’d probably bottomed out the benefits of the current level of social distancing here in Sonoma County. Quite wrong,…
Flatline: This Level Of Social Distancing Has Reached Its Floor
So, as I’ve pointed out a few times, our “social distancing” efforts are working. And they’re pretty much the only thing that will work in this situation. But it’s likely that we’re reaching the limit of how much they’ll work.…