Newspapers should make their virus coverage free... seattle times already did it I think, but LA times isn't doing it... if a random blogger/newsletter guy like me can afford to make most of my writing free, a newspaper should be able to figure it out for public service stuff
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To be clear this is one thing that can be directly blamed on Trump systematically dismantling/undermining the CDC’s mission for 2+ years. It’s not generic bureaucratic malaise and incompetence. For once Hanlon’s razor does not apply. This is active malice.
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On a more personal front, my office is now on WFH protocol. Kinda ironic that the one year in a decade that I have an actual office to go to, it gets shut down. I was kinda enjoying larping the paycheck life while it lasted.
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I only have a few terry pratchetts left to go, and am saving them up as emergency cheer rations for later. Quarantine escapism is going to be tough.
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Forecasting thread on before/after shifts.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1237807343972134912 …
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Thread on testing debaclehttps://twitter.com/Laurie_Garrett/status/1237784291872030721 …
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In general, what makes this a narrative collapse is that it is the first true social media pandemic, where the possibility of conducting a global conversation in real time changes what it means to us. This pandemic will be live tweeted in exactly the way Spanish Flu was not.
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