…should apologize.
A lot of people should, but they won’t. What hacks both he and Mueller turned out to be. It’s frightening that people like this can rise to the head of such a powerful agency.
Testing
…is coming to your doctor’s office, or even your home.
We have suffered the most from lack of knowledge of who has it, or has had it. We won’t be able to get back to anything resembling pre-virus normal until we can do extensive testing.
[Update]
This would help a lot, too: Searching for a cure from the blood of survivors.
Liberal-Arts Degrees
…renamed “Non-Essential-Worker degrees.”
If colleges owe students refunds, it’s not because of the pandemic; it’s because they’ve abandoned their role as places of learning.
Trust The “Experts”
Public health authorities have failed us at every level, and the powerful people who were catastrophically wrong about China.
[Update a while later]
The long hard road to decoupling from China. We cannot have globalization with countries that do not share our values of liberty and individualism. But we should more strongly embrace the China that works: Taiwan.
[Update a couple minutes later]
A bipartisan call for WHO to make Taiwan a member. That of course begs the question that WHO is an organization even worthy of our funding.
[Update a while later]
The massive failure of the federal government in the pandemic argues against Medicare for all.
Social Impact
The virus is going to redefine home, work, education, and life.
Food Shortages Soon?
I’ve been concerned about this for a while. It shows how fragile our infrastructure is. And it’s why proposals like Zeke Emanuel’s to continue it for over a year is societal suicide.
[Update]
Related: The coronavirus is revealing our technology blunders.
American Airlines
This is nice. Just got an email notification that they’ve extended my elite status a year, since I can’t fly right now to maintain it.
How To Escape House Arrest
Most U.S. Jobs
You don’t say.
But I’ll bet a lot more of them can than have been until this.
Apollo 13, And Commercial Crew
I did a Twitter thread.