bluescribbler
bluescribbler's JournalWhat's the dufferebce between...
...a law enforcement officer in a mask and with no ID and a terrorist?
I don't know, either.
we need national standards for police training.
All police departments should be rated on their compliance with those standards. Departments which fail to meet those standards must be denied certification or accreditation just as hospitals and schools can.
What Will The Future Of Concerts Look Like After The Pandemic?
https://www.wbur.org/artery/2020/05/04/coronavirus-pandemic-music-industry-concerts?fbclid=IwAR0Bb4vzJFu63PpkRZJuwytDhlgRV7az_XT0ANZBpFz9hvCcMpcwUzJj8u8Thinking today about a book I read in college
A book which seems strangely appropriate today. The course was titled 19th Century American Literature. We read
Emerson and Thoreau, Dickinson and Poe, Twain and Douglass, but this story was The Confidence Man, by Herman Melville.
Anybody else read that story?
Old Man Fibber
https://www.google.com/search?q=old+man+fibber&rlz=1C1GGRV_enUS751US751&oq=old+man+fib&aqs=chrome.1.69i57j0l2j69i61.18826j0j8&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8Why does Mass have about 5000 more confirmed cases than California?
I have a theory. California got on the ball quickly and took it very seriously, issuing a statewide stay home lockdown order. Gov
Baker waited and eventually issued a stay home lockdown advisory. By the time Baker took action the virus was already widespread. In addition, the fact that he had issued an advisory, not an order, led some to take it less seriously than they would have otherwise.
'Absolute Clusterf-k': Inside the Denial and Dysfunction of Trump's Coronavirus Task Force
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-coronavirus-covid-white-house-testing-kushner-cdc-dysfunction-red-dawn-982308/?fbclid=IwAR2wxWP1Z1yqrQpXaPFAnR5nOPBSZFsl93EWmJylR5DXzjQk0QZyGMgo2nYOn February 24th, Dr. Duane Caneva, the chief medical officer at the Department of Homeland Security, sent an urgent email with the subject line “Red Dawn Breaking Bad” to a small group of doctors, epidemiologists, public-health officials, and pandemic experts. For more than a month, the scientists on the email chain had been tracking a deadly new virus that was ripping its way through Southeast Asia.
The people on the Red Dawn email chain ranged from local health officials in Texas and California to senior-level doctors at the U.S. Army, the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the State Department. Some of them had worked together in the White House in the mid-2000s. They had helped write President Bush’s 2007 national strategic plan for a flu pandemic and had advised President Obama on his response to the 2009 H1N1 outbreak. (The Red Dawn title was an inside joke referring to the 1984 B movie in which the Soviet Union invades America.)
By late February, the sense of alarm in the emails was palpable, as new coronavirus cases were reported in Singapore, Hong Kong, South Korea, Japan, and Italy. One of the White House veterans on the chain was a pandemic expert named Dr. Carter Mecher, who is now a senior adviser at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Mecher got into the habit of waking up at 4:30 a.m. and combing the internet for data to help him understand this new virus and what might happen if it made it to America.
One day, he discovered a field report by Japan’s National Institute of Infectious Diseases about the Diamond Princess cruise ship, docked in Yokohama, which had suffered one of the first major coronavirus outbreaks. Mecher used the field report’s numbers to make a rough projection about how a severe pandemic might play out in the U.S., and he immediately shared it with his colleagues on the Red Dawn chain: By his calculation, if 30 percent of the American population were to get the new coronavirus, more than 1.7 million could die from it.
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