Whether due to lockdown fatigue, or skepticism, or confusion, or misinformation, or a sense that the threat has ebbed, more people in the area seem to be trying out social gatherings. Mostly with some nod to social distancing, but the threat feels more distant and solidarity more tenuous. Even in California and Washington, lockdowns are […]
Stasis is the status these days. Somehow we’re halfway through May, and only the later sunsets provide any sign of change. We have found a routine, mostly, and while every few days the kids need a new diversion they have mostly accepted our new rhythms. Gratefully the kindergartner is not fighting school so hard, and […]
Every technical person that I know has been alternating between incredulity and despair over this tweet by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (!!!) that contains a totally bogus, unmotivated cubic curve fit that creates the illusion that deaths will just “go to zero” in mid-May. We put people in jail for less egregious falsifications. New […]
I’ve been pushing on a time-sensitive work project, which has mostly kept me from reading or thinking too much about the news. That’s mostly been for the best, as the implications of the current situation are not good. Despite all of the social distancing efforts, case counts in the US aren’t declining, they are plateauing. […]