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…
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…
Again: Not Wrong, Still Stupid
Apparently, we’re gonna deal with this again now. What the hell; it’s been two weeks. Two weeks ago, I posted Still Idiots: Not Totally Wrong. It’s mostly about how, while I do agree with these crackpots that no reasonable reading…
Peak Silliness: Please Stop With The Predictions
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;…