…are probably killing more people than the virus is.
This doesn’t surprise me at all.
[Tuesday-morning update]
Four life-threatening consequences of the lockdown.
Category Archives: Science And Society
“Junk” DNA
It may not be as junky as was previously thought.
A New Virus Clue
We’ve know this for a while, but this is clearly a vascular, not a respiratory disease.
Escape From The Wuhan Darkness
Confronting our potentially stark choices.
I don’t know if human expansion off planet is economically feasible, but I sure hope so.
A Mission To Venus
A private one. All is proceeding as I have foreseen.
I hope they have a good camera to see if it’s beautiful clouds, or just gray.
Herd Immunity From T-Cells
A pre-print on it. It looks encouraging.
The Biggest Leftist Casualty Of The Virus
The left’s Gramscian march took decades. Trump and the virus swept through the institutions in a few months. Good riddance.
Heat Wave
Looks like the next week and a half will be one of those times we wish we had A/C in coastal California. It was warm last night (temperature has been below seventy every morning when we get up, but it was 73 this morning). Can’t really justify the expense and electricity of central air, but maybe we’ll finally be motivated to get a window or portable unit for the bedroom.
[Noon update]
People are talking about split units in comments. No way we’d spend that kind of money, particularly when we have no use for a heat pump. We just need something to keep the bedroom cool to sleep at night.
[Saturday-morning update]
Well, so far, so good. It never got below 74 in the house, but we slept well. If it gets no worse than that, we’ll be OK. The worst thing about Santa Anas is that when the wind comes from the east, we can hear the sound of the 405 freeway, which is about a mile away. Otherwise, the neighborhood is quiet, because despite being half a block from a major thoroughfare to the west, the sound is blocked by a dune that our place is at the bottom of.
The Restaurant Industry
The pandemic (and often stupid response to it) is on the verge of destroying it.
I have to confess that I wouldn’t miss it all that much, except when I travel. I can prepare my own food much healthier, and much lower cost. The fact that so many young people thought they could afford to pay other people to cook for them is one of the reasons that generation is having a tough time financially.
Cuomo
Baby, please come back.
This virus has been like a wildfire, sweeping through education, academia, and blue cities. It took technological and social trends that were already happening, and rapidly accelerated them, and now they’re smoldering ashes. I don’t think any of them will ever be the same again. And that’s not a bad thing.