There’s something missing from this Washington Post story titled “US intelligence officials early warnings to Trump about coronavirus went unheeded“. Go ahead; give it a read. I’ll wait. Did you catch it? They do a decent job describing a series…
You Should Read This: A New Use For Vacuum Cleaner Bags
Kevin Drum at Mother Jones reports on How To Make a Homemade Mask If You Absolutely Have To. The result may surprise you … … but not if you read this post’s title. (The original paper he discusses is here.)…
A New Normal: Business In A Time Of Pandemic
This is gonna take a while. A long, long while. So yesterday a new study came out that predicts abound 2 million deaths in the U.S., if everyone tries to just go about their business as usual. That’s … really…
Don’t Get Comfortable: Quarantine, Evacuation, And Curfew
It’s still important that we don’t normalize this. Just to start this off properly, they are correct this time: You should stay at home. You should keep about ten feet away from other people. You should minimize your contact with…
Hey America: Shut It All Down
A message from Italy: take this one seriously. Very seriously. It’s not often that I talk about something here where the solution is: extremely obvious widely agreed on by experts immediately doable by everyone (Usually, it’s the second one where…