Link. Stop covering the pressers. Instead cover the actions resulting.
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Bill Weld exits
Link. “small “Never Trump” movement of Republicans, meanwhile, has recently been more focused on supporting the Democratic candidacy of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden”
“Only a small minority of people panic under threat, research shows. Far more don’t take the threat seriously enough.”
Link. Panic is less common than most think.
“Americans never returned to the common drinking cup, outlawed during the crisis and previously common in schools, offices and railway cars; they frowned on public spitting.”
Link. At one time we thought the Spanish Flu went relatively unnoticed. That history was incomplete.
“Yet we don’t have a single test licensed in the U.S. In China, in South Korea, and in Europe, those tests are used. The manufacturer for this rapid test is producing a million a day. It’s there. But in the name of protecting the public, the FDA has mov
Link. Much better review than I expected. His name is familiar to me…
Britain’s plan for economic survival
Link. Staying alive.
“80 percent chance the final number will be anywhere between 19,000 and 1.2 million, according to these estimates”
Link. Nobody know how bad COVID will be
Supply Chains and the Coronavirus.
Link. This was widely predicted.
Italy’s covid: low fertility, longevity, grandparent caregivers.
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“Newsom estimated that more than half of California’s population—25.5 million people—will likely contract the novel coronavirus within the next eight weeks”
Link.
UW Medicine COVID-19 – sharing what they learn in real time
Link. Every hospital needs this.
“In settings where face masks are not available, [health-care providers] might use homemade masks (e.g., bandana, scarf) for care of patients with COVID-19″
Link. MAGA.
“There are also more than five thousand previous articles for you to explore and enjoy”
Link. Howard Oakley is a marvel.
Science Matters: Let’s Talk About COVID-19 | Coursera – 19hours, free
Link. If you just can’t get enough. Imperial College. London.
“Some colleagues have tested positive for the coronavirus, and a few have needed intensive care. For us all, the dangers are great.”
Link. Italy has moved to suppression. Now it waits.
Internet book of critical care: COVID-19
Link. Complement to UpToDate chapter.
“Blame me — and all the other Republicans who aided and abetted and, yes, benefited from protecting a political party that has become dangerous to America.”
Link. GOP apostate. Blame Murdoch not least of all.
Why WH went crisis mode: “new information had come from a model developed in Britain.”
Link. Would love to read journal article on that model.
India’s missing coronavirus
Link. Maybe they got the milder strain?
Hydroxychloroquine, COVID-19, and Lupus.
Link. “If it does work … [for COVID-19] … it might be worth looking again at old (and still current) ideas that rheumatic disorders that response to hydroxychloroquine (esp. SLE, RA) are infectious in origin”
China: U.S. Army Started the Coronavirus Epidemic
Link. Inspired by similar insanity from GOP
Prisoners of the forever war.
Link. US torture program meams they can never be tried.
Britain realizes COVID strategy really dumb?
Link. Maybe we all have mad cow disease?
UK COVID strategy isn’t what most imagine.
Link. OTOH we don’t know what it is. It has been a secret. Hope to find out soon.
“two senior American officials said that some of the German news accounts first reporting the story were overblown, particularly with regard to any effort by the United States to secure exclusive access to a vaccine.”
Link. NYT covers the weird vaccine story.
“core idea of Superdeterminism is that everything in the universe is related to everything else because the laws of nature prohibit certain configurations of particles”
Link. I suspect makes more sense as match.
iPhone cleaning: “I was told that hydrochloric acid, found in toilet-bowl cleaner, would take it right off. Yet after five minutes of scrubbing, it was still fine.”
Link. “I decided to let it sit in a stew of toilet-bowl cleaner for two hours, then I threw in a five-minute rubdown with nail-polish remover, which has acetone. That did it”
The comprehensive Ars Technica guide to the coronavirus.
Link. Damn, this really is good. Who knew geeks were so good at medical topics?
New Proteins In New Ways: “get used to thinking differently about what functional proteins look like, how they’re produced, what they can do, about the relationships between protein regulation and RNA regulation”
Link. Evolution and neural networks solve problems in bizarrely unintuitive ways for similar reasons.
“Seagate drives again had the highest failure rates, which has been a pattern over the years”
Link. WD is my usual choice
“implies that Apple has already chosen a solution which will allow backups to be hosted locally on APFS, or in iCloud, encouraging many more Mac users to pay for 2 TB subscriptions”
Link. Hope true
WaPo on COVID: ”$29 per year, you can have full access to our coverage of every subject.”
Link. intro pricing but they and nyt have done well. wapo is cheaper!
Economics now: “Why force millions to stand in security lines at airports every day when there has not been an important terrorist attack on an airplane in years?”
Link. Another great column.
There area lot of strains of novel coronavirus 2019 now…
Link. Wow. They must vary in behavior quite a bit. Wonder if all immunize against their cousins.
Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) – MacInTouch (!)
Link. A tech site does a resource survey and, as with many similar, it’s excellent. Tech sites are actually pretty good at this stuff.
Exercise and sanity in the time of you-know-what
Link. UV radiation, high air flow and natural social distancing. Time to horde bicycles.
From 2005: “SARS causes ARDS by binding to pulmonary angiotensin receptors; in mice administration of angiontensin converting enzyme 2 reverses this toxicity”
Link. Ummm. What happened to that?! Maybe it was just mice?
“Ciesek was surprised to find that the viral load of the specimens from the asymptomatic patients was higher than the viral load of the specimens from the three patients who did have symptoms.”
Link. We can’t catch a break can we.
MSP Trails – Bike Saint Paul to Hastings MN
Link. Getting ready for my summer rides.
Federal agencies unhelpful with COVID exposures.
Link. Led by Fox watching Trumpista.
“Hidden Features will be a recurring series on our blog, showcasing more gestures and interactions throughout MindNode on macOS and iOS.”
Link. Discovery problem. Paging Clippy?
We Don’t Need to Close Schools to Fight the Coronavirus.
Link. Assumes teachers aren’t at uniquely increased risk. Only works if children truly don’t pass virus around.
“Frank felt terrible regret, tortured by what he had done. He was mistaken, he said. Wrong. Years later, Frank would tell Rana, “I want you to know from my heart, I’m sorry for what I did to your brother,”
Link. “Rana’s forgiveness is real. And it’s not even unique. A number of people have publically forgiven murderers of the people they love.”
NYT sort of describes Britain’s COVID strategy.
Link. Would be good to see science behind it. Why won’t they run out of vents? (This is what Russia, India, and Indonesia are doing, not just Britain.)
NYT interactive model of epidemic outcomes.
Link. Awesome.
China’s Alibaba CEO to send test kits to US.
Link. End of empire. Time to shrink the military. We are done.
Judge James Dannenberg writes John Roberts a letter resigning from the Supreme Court Bar.
Link. “You are allowing the Court to become an “errand boy” for an administration that has little respect for the rule of law.”
“For years, immigrants have looked to America as a place where their standard of living was bound to improve,” McConnell said. “We’re going to change that.”
Link. We will name the 2030 immigration subsidies after Mitch McConnell.
“I think that the biologic agents are likely to be the main line of defense against this coronavirus; there is every reason to believe that we can get an effective therapy out of one or more of these approaches.”
Link. “But none of them are going to be coming on in time to help the crisis we’re looking at right now.”
“near-zombie biotech companies that have been staggering around in the public markets for years have popped up with hot coronavirus-themed PR hits, and people should be ashamed of themselves.”
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