Turning one ventilator into nine.
[Update a while later]
While my only risk, based on Italian data, seems to be hypertension (which I’ve had all my adult life), I do suffer from the disability and pre-existing condition of not being a woman.
Maybe, just to be safe, or at least reduce my risk, I should start identifying as one. I’m sure it will fool the virus.
California turned up the screws last night, but extermination is an exempted activity, so the fumigators are still coming today, and we’re still driving up to Cambria (and returning Monday) with the cats. If anyone stops us, I’m pretty sure that once we explain the situation, we’ll be waved on. But there is still plenty of traffic on the highways (though nothing like normal), so no reason to pull us over (unless I actually do something wrong). I may be a little less leadfoot than usual.
[Saturday-morning update]
Probably the quickest trip from LA to Cambria ever–about three and a half hours, which was good because we had a crying cat. Traffic was light, and moving along at 80 mph on the freeways. More anon.
Our reliance on it has destroyed our ability to manage risk.
Gee, someone should write a book about that. It applies to climate as well. And more related links.
Is it inevitable, and soon? It’s a good idea to prepare, but I don’t think it will be necessary. In any event, unless we cancel tomorrow’s fumigation, we have to leave the house until Monday.
[Update later morning]
If this is true, it’s great news. The case-fatality rate may be only a tenth of a percent.
[Update mid-afternoon]
This is stupid. How do these people expect the needed goods to be moved with the war on truckers?
[Update Friday morning]
More on the trucker’s plight.
[Update a few minutes later]
I’d been needing a haircut, but put it off too long, I guess (I always procrastinate, because I hate getting haircuts). Other than the impact on the proprietors’ businesses, no one will suffer from not getting a tattoo, but hair grows.
[Bumped]
We are about to find out how robust it is.
Yes, it’s long past time to ban them. It should be a condition of re-engagement with the Chinese economy.
Can it be used on the moon?
Maybe, but only on the near side. It really needs its own constellation (and the satellites wouldn’t be in stable orbits).
It’s only 44% over budget.
At what point will it be generally recognized what a fiasco SLS is? Maybe when Starship flies?
I’ve never been a big patron of restaurants, both for reasons of cost and health (plus I hate being waited on and having to tip for it), but I’m glad that people who were are trying to help with gift cards.
[Update a few minutes later]
I should note, here or someplace, that so far this has barely affected my lifestyle at all. I rarely go out to eat, and am generally a hermit when I’m not traveling.