Month: April 2020

Day 17: A Sorry State of Affairs

This just in: the government is recommending that we all do wear cloth masks in public places. Perhaps I should be reading the U.S. news less because it’s terrifying: shuttered businesses (with USPS possibly closing in June) and massive unemployment claims, field hospitals set up in Central Park and ventilator shortages, the threats on Dr. Fauci’s life and Covid-19 conspiracy theories. Regarding the Administration’s stunning mishandling of the crisis, yesterday in an interview Noam Chomsky […]

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Day 16: Diminishing Sanity

The last few days my blog has been acting up and not letting anyone post comments. Thank you, Marianna, for the bug report and the testing. I did fix it all by myself, even without my tech gurus Molly or Jill, but I have no idea how. So anyway, if the spirit moves any of you—my countless readers—to leave feedback: it should be working again. Let me know by e-mail if it’s not. For weeks […]

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