Archive for 2020
May 11, 2020
I DUNNO, SEEMS LIKE MCKAY COPPINS IS GOING FOR THE DRAMA HERE: I Just Flew. It Was Worse Than I Thought It Would Be. The surreal experience of flying during a pandemic, and the false promise of a return to normal. Summary: Some people were rude to him, he was nervous, but he got upgraded to first.
DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: Coronavirus expected to trigger plummeting Massachusetts college enrollment, revenue.
As legendary rock manager Ian Faith said when Spinal Tap’s concert in Boston was cancelled, “I wouldn’t worry about it though, it’s not a big college town.”
DUMB: Gov. Polis ‘very hopeful’ state’s campsites will reopen soon.
Camping is social distancing.
NURSING HOMES: The Real Center of the Pandemic. “Fewer than 1 percent of New York residents live in senior homes, but residents of such homes account for 22 percent of Covid-19 hospitalizations—the curve that most needs flattening.”
I’M QUOTED ON HIGHER ED: Coronavirus expected to trigger plummeting Massachusetts college enrollment, revenue.
All is proceeding as I have foreseen, only faster all of a sudden. (Bumped).
DISPATCHES FROM THE PARTY OF TOLERANCE: Feminist on Jezebel: ‘I Will Personally Be Thrilled If Stephen Miller Dies of Covid-19.’
WHEN THE LAUGH TRACK STARTS THEN THE FUN STARTS: Biden campaign ‘secretly building anti-Trump Republican group to help him take down the president.’ Funniest bit: They think that Bill Kristol is a major Republican figure.
And hey, that’s an Orbital reference, because I don’t just do Steely Dan.
I DUNNO MAN, WINDOWS SUCKS BUT THIS SEEMS A BIT EXTREME:
UPDATE: From the comments: “Has the statute of limitations expired yet for Windows ME?”
I dunno, but I think this is serious. I hear that Clippy is in witness protection.
NEWS FROM MY NECK OF THE WOODS: Coronavirus in Tennessee: 64 active Knox County cases, 295 total. “The Knox County Health Department reported fifteen new cases on Monday, bringing the total case number to 295. Knox County reported 64 active cases on Monday, up from 49 on Sunday. The new cases marked a 5.36 percent growth in cases in Knox County. The total number of recovered cases remained at 226, unchanged since Saturday. . . . There are two patients currently hospitalized due to COVID-19. Of the 295 cases, 37 of them have resulted in hospitalization at any point during the illness and five deaths.”
Still only 5 deaths, which has been the number for a while, but this is the biggest one-day jump in cases in quite some time. Some of that is due to more testing, no doubt, but it’s now been 10 days (two average incubation periods, basically) since the reopening phase started. The reopening plan contemplates an increase in cases, so even if this isn’t just a random statistical blip it won’t derail it. But we’ll see how things go.
IT’S, YOU KNOW, THE THING: BidenWatch for May 11, 2020. “Still more evidence that Tara Reade complained about Biden surfaces, plus stories of just how extensively Beijing Joe pandered to China.”
CHANGE: Poll: In U.S., a small retreat from social distancing. I think it’s less small in actions than in poll-reported views. I’m hearing from friends in NYC that places are just opening up despite the “pause,” and that more people are out and about. There’s certainly more activity around here, though we’re officially in a reopening phase.
SERENITY NOW: Jerry Stiller, Seinfeld actor and veteran comic, dead at 92.
MY BAD, SORRY ABOUT YOUR DEAD GRANDMA. Gov. Cuomo admits he was wrong to order nursing homes to accept coronavirus patients. But luckily, a scapegoat has already been selected: “Also telling: The gov has ordered an investigation that’s plainly supposed to pin all the blame on nursing and adult-care facilities: It’s led by state Attorney General Tish James, who got her job with Cuomo’s crucial assistance — and it’s only looking at what homes did wrong.”
Related: Cuomo’s nursing home reversal is too little, too late for those now dead.
WHERE A LOCKDOWN MAKES SENSE: The Real Center of the Pandemic. How to protect people in nursing homes from Covid-19 (and how it wasn’t done in New York and other states).
JIM FANELL: Flynn’s First Firing in Days of Wonder. “The U.S. Intelligence Community (USIC), of which the FBI is a member, deeply feared General Flynn because of his attempted reforms as director of the underperforming Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), which for $22 billion dollars per year was not able to recognize Islamic terrorism, assess the People’s Republic of China (PRC) being engaged in expansionism, or warn of other threats to the United States, even as those issues were discussed in newspapers around the world.”
QUALIFIED IMMUNITY TO BE CONSIDERED BY SCOTUS? Supreme Court Will Soon Decide Whether To Reconsider Qualified Immunity.
This kinda seemed like Glenn’s meat, but it was too good.
AT AMAZON, Face Mask, Pack of 50.
LORENA GONZALEZ IS A GARBAGE LEGISLATOR: California Lawmaker to Tesla Founder: “F*ck Elon Musk” But His Reply Was Priceless.
BECAUSE OF COURSE HE DID: Never Trumper Bill Kristol Posts Ghoulish Fantasy of Pelosi Becoming President This Year, It Does Not Go Well.
At this point maybe we should retire “NeverTrump” and replace it with something like “Formerly Closeted Democrat Who Wishes to Be Thought of as a Moderate But No One Is Buying It.”
It’s a little wordy, isn’t it?