Jeet Heer: The Democratic party's DC leadership is failing the coronavirus test
Congressional Democrats are to the right of the GOP on coronavirus relief.
If Sanders, Warren, and Ocasio-Cortez find a way to speak with one voice, they can push the Pelosi–Chuck Schumer–Joe Biden wing to act with urgency. Otherwise, we’re stuck in a world where Romney and Cotton are to the left of the Democratic Party’s leadership.
We live in Zoom now www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1…
‘Friends’ Reunion Special Delayed at HBO Max www.hollywoodreporter.com/live-feed…
They will not be there for you.
When your phone links you to a crime: How law enforcement used a “geofence” warrant to identify a suspect of a crime he didn’t commit.
Google tracked his bike ride past a burglarized home. That made him a suspect.
Dr. Fabiano Di Marco, a doctor in a hospital in Bergamo, Italy, shares his story: “It’s like a war,” he says. “We cry every day.” The US may be headed the same way. www.nytimes.com/2020/03/1…
The origin stories of the peace sign, smiley face and power button symbol.
There are symbols all around us that we take for granted, like the lightning strike icon, which indicates that something is high voltage. Or a little campfire to indicate that something is flammable. Those icons are pretty obvious, but there are others that aren’t so straightforward. Like, why do a triangle and a stick in a circle indicate “peace”? Where does the smiley face actually come from?"
If you must smoke while wearing your influenza mask, 1918 reddit.com/r/OldScho…
How to avoid the time-suck of social networks while working at home www.zdnet.com/article/h…
Bill Gates: Countries shut for coronavirus could bounce back in weeks — www.cnbc.com/2020/03/1…
Sister Maria Elena Romero, a cloistered nun, offers advice on social distancing, which nuns and monks have been doing for nearly 2,000 years.
U.S. Virus Plan Anticipates 18-Month Pandemic and Widespread Shortages
18 months!
Cory Doctorow: Plague precautions from 1665.
A comprehensive list, resembling extreme measures we might see today – both virtues and flaws (tippling in public houses STILL permitted).
Science was just getting started then, but people had plenty of experience with plague.
Among the precautions: Public entertainments, including bear-baiting, are banned. The bears must have been pleased.
Cory Doctorow: "Bigoted Republican Congressjerk votes against coronavirus relief because it might cover same-sex partnerships."
Cory: “The Republican Party, folks. The party of death and poverty and tragedy and hate. Remember that in November.”
In reality, the law that hateful moron Andy Biggs (R-Az) objects to makes no change to US policy regarding same-sex partnerships. None.
Also, the way infectious disease works is that for any of us to be protected, all of us need protection. Even people we find contemptible, like Andy Biggs.
John Green on coronavirus: “Togetherness is the superpower of our species. Like, yeah, we as individuals are very smart, as animals go, but it is our collective knowledge that has made us so successful.”
American Airlines blew $15B on stock buybacks to benefit shareholders, jacked up prices and nickel-and-dimed customers. Now it wants a $50B bailout - 3x 9/11.
When companies make good decisions, management and shareholders are rewarded. When companies make bad decisions, they scream for help to Uncle Sam … and management and shareholders are rewarded at taxpayer expense.
Good thing Bernie is going down. Otherwise we might have socialism or something!
NYT: Trump Now Claims He Always Knew the Coronavirus Would Be a Pandemic
Trump lies compulsively, and many times a day, about things that are easily verifiable as untrue. He claims he always knew the coronavirus would be pandemic within days of having gone on the record numerous times downplaying the seriousness of the virus and ridiculing people who took it seriously.
None of this is secret. It’s all on video. You can see it for yourself. Probably you did see it.
Scientists warn we may need to live with social distancing for a year or more
Grim reading.
Facebook was marking legitimate news articles about the coronavirus as spam due to a software bug
San Diego leaders back freeze on evictions tied to coronavirus outbreak despite landlord concerns