“Strong Social Distancing Measures In The United States Reduced The COVID-19 Growth Rate”.
“A politician who desperately wanted re-election would’ve been hard at work, from the moment he or she was alerted to the danger, attempting to contain the pandemic and limit the economic damage, and would persevere no matter what the setbacks, never wavering in an effort to produce the policy results that might lead to a big win in November.”
“Reporting on deliberately misleading stories in ostensibly objective ways serves only to reward the bad-faith actors spreading the nonsense in the first place.”
RIP, Phyllis George, pioneering broadcaster and former Miss America.
“The Blockbuster video store in Bend, Oregon, is the last of its kind in the entire world, and it’s miraculously surviving not just the streaming era but also the coronavirus pandemic.”
“Welcome to Our Very Safe Restaurant!”
Boy, the cast of Friends could have been very, very different.
Two words: Pizza arbitrage. Also, avoid Grubhub if you can.
The foreign TV shows are coming.
RIP, Lynn Shelton, writer, director, and producer of film and TV.
“In other words, the idea that Sweden was going to plow head on into the epidemic, have a high mortality but not wreck its economy really isn’t true on either score.”
“Because the president is incapable of giving an inspirational speech, he and his supporters had to settle for a photoshopped video of a fictional president warning about annihilation.”
“Every distraction distracts from another distraction, which in turn, distracts from yet another. It’s distractions, all the way down.”
RIP, Annie Glenn, widow of former astronaut and US Senator John Glenn.
“25 Horror Episodes From Non-Horror TV Shows“, in case you’re into that sort of thing.
We should not want to be like Sweden.
RIP, Jerry Sloan, former coach of the Utah Jazz.
RIP, Keith Wade, local political strategist and all-around good guy. I met him back in 2009 when he was on the Annise Parker campaign, and liked him a lot. Politics is fundamentally about people, and I’ve been fortunate to meet a lot of bright, talented, generous, and affable people by my participation in local politics. Keith Wade was one of those people, and I was terribly saddened to see this headline in the paper. Rest in peace, Keith Wade.
“For those receiving hydroxychloroquine and an antibiotic — the cocktail endorsed by Trump — there was a 45 percent increased risk of death“.