Making a Difference: How To Communicate About Using Masks for COVID
The rules were developed because they work, not because I think they ought to work or because I read somewhere that they should work.
Tagged: Coronavirus
Cornonavirus Outbreak Causes MLB to Suspend Games
It’s been less than a week and already Major League Baseball has a full-blown coronavirus outbreak on their hands.
Thursday Throughput: Comparing Catastrophes
I can see why it is being made. Both climate change and COVID-19 are science-heavy global problems. But the comparison doesn’t work…
Andrew Scales The Lofty Heights of Mt Cuomo
Andrew Cuomo’s celebration of Andrew Cuomo, presented without further comment, because I’m sure you folks will do plenty of that
Thursday Throughput: Missing COVID Deaths Edition
The initial wave of infections was massive, much worse that it looks if you only use confirmed detections. But the resurgence is bad and getting worse. This is not just testing; this is an actual resurgence of the virus.
Harsh Your Mellow Monday: Miseducation Edition
Bad things coming for American education, the mask slips on mask wearing, and the ending of that Frederick Douglass speech everyone was sharing this weekend.
Me and Three Women in a Garden
All human plans are provisional and the rules change every day. I say we keep gardening.
Thursday Throughput: Caldera Edition
We’re still learning about the caldera and its past. But perhaps this is one cataclysm a little less likely to hit in 2020.
The Protest Wave: COVID-19, Perceptions of Science, and Mass Events
Control of the virus is not because of lockdown orders or hashtags. It’s because the public demonstrated astonishing trust in public health experts.
Mini-Troughput: The HCQ, Hydroxychloroquine Reloaded
If-and I stress that it is still if-this data turn out to be garbage, I can not overstate what a disservice this is to science. I really hope it turns out to be a big misunderstanding.
Howard County Maryland and the Devil in the Religious Service Details
As local municipalities work towards implementing their respective governor’s re-opening guidelines, Howard County, Maryland, raised some eyebrows with theirs
Hydroxychloroquine, COVID Truthers, Trump and Science
If Hydroxychloroquine fails-and it’s not looking good-my only response will be massive disappointment. Not entirely unexpected, but also a tragedy.
Coronaroundup: Nick Saban Edition
Three cheers for Nick Saban. Football coaches are cultural leaders of a sort. One is about to become a senator in Alabama, even. What they do matters.
Linky Friday: Unassailable Facts, and Other Fabrications
Linky Friday, Ordinary Times’ end of the week tradition brings you items to read, share, and discuss from around the web, from culture, to politics, to that Joe Biden interview everyone will be talking about.
College and Covid
My undergrad alma mater sent out an e-mail blast announcing their plan to reopen in the fall with “mostly” in person classes.
Whither An Old Problem: Sweden, New York, and Problems with Elderly Care
People are going to die, and there is going to be economic pain. The final numbers of both are what has been, and still is being, negotiated.
Thursday Throughput: Finding the Missing Black Holes
Black holes are difficult to find because…they are black. They don’t emit light. And light is the primary messenger astronomers rely on to bring us information from the cosmos
Why Was The 1918 Flu Pandemic Forgotten?
The current COVID-19 pandemic is, in many ways, unprecedented. Joshua Keating at Slate argued that it is the first truly global event, affecting practically the entire world’s population at the same time and in similar ways. Commentators and...
