Mitch Wagner

Nurses Share Coronavirus Stories Anonymously in an Online Document - Edmund Lee - The New York Times

More than 1,200 health care workers have used a private online document to share their stories of fighting the coronavirus pandemic on the front lines.

In their accounts, they say the outbreak has turned American hospitals into “war zones.” They talk about being scared to go to work and anxious that they will become infected. They describe managers who seem to not care about their plight.

“But we show up and have to keep showing up,” one nurse wrote, “and we have to test ourselves.”

The document was created on March 19 by Sonja Schwartzbach, a nurse in New Jersey who is studying as a doctoral student. She said she started compiling the accounts after she determined that hospital conditions were “far worse” than most people realized and that her fellow health care workers needed a place to share what they were seeing.

How the Pandemic Will End - Ed Yong - The Atlantic

One month ago today I took Minnie in to the vet for her bordatella and heartworm test.

Two years ago today I was on a train to LA for a conference.

Three years ago today one of my oldest friends was in town for a conference, and so he and another of my oldest friends got together for dinner.

So much activity involving being around people, at less than a 6' distance!

Coronavirus changes everything about the 2020 election. Trump is now the favorite to win. All he has to do is not fuck up egregiously.

People will continue to support Trump even in the face of normal incompetence from him – it will take outrageous incompetence to undercut Trump’s support.

On the other hand, outrageous incompetence is something that Trump regularly does. This is a man who went out bankrupt – repeatedly – running casinos, and whom no legitimate bank would do business with.

Cory Doctorow: San Francisco’s DNA Lounge is delivering cocktails in mason jars. A mason jar is three servings – or one if you really want to party like it’s 1999.

Cory Doctorow: “Reasonable covid food-safety advice: Sanitize your hands and your cart, practice social distancing, and…you’re done.”

This pretty much matches what I’ve read on Consumer Reports, and what I did when I went out grocery shopping Tuesday.

Also, I’m saving up grocery shopping for big runs. Normally, when I run out of something, I go out and get it. However, I’m running out of apples now and I’ll just do without apples a few days until I have a lot of stuff to buy.

Cory Doctorow: Right-wing extremists who denounce their opponents' incivility are using the same arguments as advocates of slavery in the antebellum US.

Cory Doctorow: Real-estate plutocrats are making a killing on the Senate stimulus. And guess what business Trump is in?

Cory Doctorow: [The US is now the epicenter of the pandemic] a: “Trump wants the country to go back to work by Easter, because in his version of the Trolley Problem, the most important thing is saving the trolley.”

In cruel irony, the bulk of the people who die will be older Americans – the Trump and Fox news demographic, Cory notes.

But so many people will die because of this. Old people. Young people. People with disabilities. People who just had very bad luck. Kids.

And that’s before you get to all the people who have car wrecks or heart attacks or slip-and-falls and can’t get treatment in overloaded hospitals.

When Hoover fucked up by giving in to plutes and crashed the economy, he got tent cities, or “Hoovervilles.”

Trump’s fuckup will end with mass graves. Trump Mausoleums? Mar-a-Plague-Pits?

We will get through this. But Trump will have murdered so many of us before it’s over.

Gentleman buys a DVD at a flea market containing 80 minutes of previously unseen Seinfeld bloopers.