Woke very early, thinking I was on track, but with a little bit of a sore throat. Throughout the morning that ended up accompanied by body aches, and by ten I felt like I was coming down with something.
I had a couple of hours before I had to be online, so I crashed. It helped, a lot. This evening I’m just a little off again. I may have dodged a bullet. Perhaps, perhaps.
I haven’t been good for much, but here’s a bit of a gem.
NPR’s edition of Fresh Air for the day, with a guy I’ve heard before, and was impressed all over with again today.
Bottom line is we’re being stupid, generally, and rushing far too fast to reopen.
By my reading the US is by far the hardest hit, the only country with over a million cases, and more American deaths than Vietnam.
Compare the numbers for countries with larger populations, like China and India. If you listen to the interview, you’ll get a sense of why.
Slow motion catastrophe on a ship of fools.
Something like twenty states, depending on how you count them, are reopening the day after tomorrow.
By some utter miracle, this one, run by right-wing pinheads for the most part, is not. We have someone to bless for that, but no doubt we’ll never learn their name. Some doctor or lawyer who has the Governor’s ear and enough persuasive power and evidence to talk him out of brain-dead shenanigans like the ones in Texas and the rest of Redstate Murica. Thanks, whoever you are.
We get an extra half-month, at least.
The interview raised another interesting point, about the phenomenon of consciously infecting oneself, to be done with it.
I might consider it, over the summer, if I can find myself a convenient place with a non-burdened hospital. But before that can be a thing, I’d have to know for sure that there’s a very low risk of getting it more than once.
It would be stupid to risk one’s life and not be sure of getting the benefit of immunity at some level.
Strange days indeed.