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mousetrap visualization of social distancing

the old physics demo you probably saw, but adapted to today

quote for the day

 

 

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.”

George Orwell, 1984

 

 

jigsaw puzzles

How they're made

As a kid I emptied all of my old ones into a box and sold jigsaw puzzle by weight.  There weren't any takers.

 

seasonality and the virus

Suggesting no major seasonal effect

 

the flag

 

 

the path of misinformation

How a badly flawed study made it to the most dangerous place.

snip

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The story of how hydroxychloroquine was anointed the Trump administration’s miracle drug for the coronavirus pandemic is a distinctly modern tale of misinformation within a global information ecosystem beset by widespread uncertainty, fear, media fragmentation and hyper-partisanship. Belief in the drug’s potential to cure patients infected with the virus followed an extraordinary trajectory from a small study conducted in France (Trump’s “very good test”) to Silicon Valley social media influencers, Fox News and the largest bully pulpit: the White House.

But it’s also a story as old as medicine itself. When an epidemic killed thousands in ancient Rome, said Aaron Shakow, a research associate at Harvard Medical School and historian of medicine, the chief physician of the emperor Nero circulated a recipe for an old miracle cure.

“It was an attempt by Nero to sustain his legitimacy in the midst of this catastrophic event,” Shakow said. “Epidemics are dangerous to rulers.”

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failing social distancing

The new coal-rolling of mostly right-wing males.

 

what the white house knew in january

Some evidence from late January .. they were also briefed on it earlier. 

Something could have been done..  nothing like having a childish despot running things.

 

what do homes mean now?

They need to be practical 

 

anger

This piece resonated with part of my anger

a tip of the hat to Anne-Helen