Ada Limón on Preparing the Body for a Reopened World [slLitHub]
“Appalled” by rich countries hogging vaccines, WHO extends booster moratorium
No more promises, we just want vaccines for low-income countries, WHO director says.
Dollar Store Chains Make Up Nearly One Third of All U.S. Store Openings
On the other hand, the report also noted that major U.S. retailers have announced 4,844 store closures so far in 2021, compared to 2,191 closures last year.
Zeynep Tufekci on the pandemic and underlying social problems.
Tufekci is a strikingly sensible sociologist who was early about the importance of masking. “Yes, this is a really difficult question because I ended up writing an op-ed essentially criticizing CDC and the WHO on masks in March 2020. At the time, peopl…
Teacher with COVID symptoms went maskless, making her class an experiment
Study shows how small slip ups can fuel an outbreak.
Samsung seemingly caught swapping components in its 970 Evo Plus SSDs
The Phoenix controller in Samsung’s own product images isn’t present on newer drives.
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain
The Last Flight of Dr. Ain As the enclosed biographical note reads:James Tiptree, Jr., was the pseudonym of Alice B. Sheldon (1915-1987), who before turning to writing had been an artist, a newspaper art critic, a World War II photo-intelligence office…
Reddit takes a teach-the-controversy approach to pandemic and vaccines
In post on vaccination debate, Reddit says dissent is “foundation of democracy.”
“You waited eight months?”
Explaining the Pandemic to my Past Self Part 5 Julie Nolke goes from August 2021 to (presumably) December 2020 to give the news on how vaccination is going and how the Olympics went and Jeff Bezos’s penis rocket. Most recent post about Julie Nolke here.
“We are set on a path that looks disastrous”: Alabama hospitals near collapse
On Wednesday, Alabama had negative 29 ICU beds available.