Dave Winer
The man has a point!
White House coronavirus task force to be wound down around Memorial Day.
Goodness America is so efficient. No other country in the world has achieved that level of certainty.
Normal
There is a lot of noise about getting ‘back to normal’. But that ain’t going to happen. Anyway, do you want to go back to the ‘normal’ we had?
It’s been a thread through my last two newsletters.
What’s Next? - Either ‘The Same’, Or ‘Different’.
Fifty - What If We Live?
‘Word’
David Axelrod and David Plouffe: What Biden Needs to Do to Beat Trump.
Fifty years since his first campaign for electoral office. This dog gonna need to learn new tricks. So far it’s not looking too good.
I see RR Live has introduced comp tags for states that have never sheltered and reopened … time to revisit around the third week of May.
California is seen as a leading light in the fight against COVID - but do some underlying figures suggest a deeper truth?
As always the numbers won’t be exactly right.
Total cases in CA : 53,611
Fully 46% of those are in LA County.
In fact 66% of all CA cases are in the top 4 counties in CA - SOCAL specifically and have 72% of all CA deaths.
In NORCAL; San Francisco, Santa Clara, San Mateo, Marin, Alameda, Contra Costa and Santa Cruz account for just 14% of all CA cases.
Those are the six counties in the Bay Area that were the first counties in AMERICA to go into lock down. Everyone laughed at the time.
Meet the Bay Area doctor who ordered America’s first coronavirus lockdown
View4 … thinking … anyone tried it?
The recent update to Cleanshot (part of the SetApp world) is terrific.
The Age of Ignorance … it’ll be the death of us.
🔗 Just revisiting the Google Rant
.. all this time later, does it still hold?
Reference - if you are using Blue Yeti
Side note - using keeps getting spell checked to suing - something they know?
🚧 Seen two separate references in the wilds of the blogosphere to this graphic in the last three days - no original source. Posting for posterity to revisit at some point.
“Trump doesn’t wear a mask because his spray tan would come off on it when he’d take it off to speak, and that’d be embarrassing. Sadly, we think it’s simple as that.”
The Chaos Report
🎵 I am often accused of using dated musical references in my writings. (You know who that is ‘R’)
Now we can begin to understand why.
But, my results are a little better in ‘modern music’ than the younger generations seem to manage on ‘older' music 😊.
Boris Johnson and Carrie Symonds name baby son Wilfred.
‘Willie Johnson’ … what were they thinking?
Not much else to say is there?
And so farewell 🔗 Automatic.
