This is highly realistic, except for the “people talking on the phone” part: xkcd: Curbside
Tag: pandemic
2020-10-14 10:40
During a pandemic it didn’t seem safe to teach taiji indoors. But we missed the practice and the camaraderie. So we moved to the park, put on masks, and carried on.
2020-09-24 10:43
I took a selfie after exercising the franchise.
2020-09-24 8:49
Polls have been open for early voting for about 45 minutes. The room is pretty full, but everybody is masked and keeping proper social distance.
2020-06-12 16:48
Yes, very sad. However, “limp along with half measures while a lot of people die,” is what I have on my pandemic bingo card. So: Score!
Source: Markets Fall, But Don’t Blame Powell | Tim Duy’s Fed Watch
2020-06-09 06:01
I’m glad I ordered my gymnastic rings when I did. I wish I’d gotten a kettlebell at the same time.
“GQ Magazine has coined the current equipment epoch ‘The Great Kettlebell Shortage of 2020.'”
2020-05-11 17:06
In yet another dispatch from the productivity journal “Duh!”:
“Other research shows that one of the best ways to reduce transmission [of illness] in the workplace is to provide paid sick leave that encourages ill employees to stay home.”
2020-05-09 12:32
Thought experiment: Imagine the death rate from Covid-19 were about 1/10th what we’re seeing, making it about as deadly as the flu; now imagine it’s about 10x what we’re seeing, making it about as deadly as smallpox. Would we respond differently?
2020-05-05 06:56
“The plan is to have no plan, to let daily deaths between one and three thousand become a normal thing, and then to create massive confusion about who is responsible”
https://pressthink.org/2020/05/the-plan-is-to-have-no-plan/ by @jayrosen_nyu
2020-05-04 12:41
“Carnival says it plans to restart cruises in August.”
Oh, yeah. That’ll work.