Category Archives: Health

That Woman Governor

Whitmer is being touted as Biden’s running mate, but that was before this. She wasn’t particularly popular as governor, having been swept in with the blue tide in 2018. So far, she’s been getting a boost from this, but I’ll be interested to see her polling in the wake of her petty tyranny. And not just her, but all such petty tyrants. I hope people will remember this fall.

[Update a few minutes later]

And this. And this. And this.

Testing Efficiency

This is the way to do it.

As the thread points out, you could just do one test per household, on the assumption that if one is infected, all are or will be. Hope the CDC/White House are aware of this thinking, because it makes a hell of a lot of sense to accelerate our knowledge of the scope.

[Early-afternoon update]

Turns out there’s a rapid-test device already available in hospitals.