"Pols appeal to Brooks Brothers"

"US Sen Ed Markey [and some others] called on Brooks Brothers Sunday to provide severance pay and health insurance to more than 400 workers in the wake of its bankruptcy filings."

If a company is bankrupt, where would the money come from for the severance pay and health insurance?

All this talk about this person or that person is at fault for rising cases and secondary spikes.

Riddle me this:  Exactly who forced anyone to reopen businesses and facilities?  Exactly who is forcing anyone to leave the comfort of their own home?

If you don't feel safe, then stay home

If you don't feel safe, then wear a mask

If you don't feel safe, then practice proper hygiene.

If you don't feel safe, then stay away from other people


(I was somewhat amused this morning at the post office.  I had a mask, the service rep behind the counter (and a plexiglass shield) had a mask, but she told me to stay behind the yellow line, iow - at least six feet from her).

So, people with lots of money and fame are claiming that wearing a mask is a no-brainer...

One conclusion is that the droplets we exhale are so laden with viruses, that we are an instant threat to everyone else.

So, why is the test for COVID-19 a deep deep deeeeeeep nasal swab?  Why not just collect what we exhale?

Looking for data on COVID-19 in California, i got to

https://covid19.ca.gov/data-and-tools/

and saw an interesting database provider... (see capture) ... can anyone tell what was interesting?

I wonder if Everskyward really meant what she wrote and understands the implications....



Everskyward said: ↑

    Key word is TRY. When I hear too much of what I don't want to hear, I turn it off.

Can we celebrate good news?

In Maskachusetts, the daily number of deaths with COVID-19 is down.  It's been trending downs for a couple of months.

The large number of covid-19 tests in Maskachusetts is showing a small percentage of positives (significantly less than 5%).

I've heard that at least one vaccine manufacturer is preparing to mass-produce vaccines (at the urging of the Trump Administration)  in anticipation of successful trails (I gather that the normal process is to not risk ramping up production capability until after FDA approval of the vaccine).  This particular company is aiming to have 300,000,000 doses by Jan 2021.

In the US, daily number of deaths with COVID-19 are trending down.

Researchers at Arizona State U. (iirc) have found a strain of COVID-19 that appears to have mutated from the original, and is missing a large number of proteins.  Having covid-19 mutate is probably a good thing.

Massachusetts "encourages" people coming to Massachusetts to quarantine for 14 days.

Maine requires people going to Maine to quarantine for 14 days.

What's the point?  COVID-19 is in Maine, COVID-19 is in Massachusetts.

from today's paper...