The scene at the Bimini Bait Shack on Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020. The staff wore masks, at least.
I was reticent to travel to Florida from my adoptive home state of Colorado. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s laissez-faire lassitude toward the pandemic – to Floridians’ great detriment – a has been all too well-documented. But then I…
Sure, I’ll wear a mask: when you put it on my too-warm, pneumonic body as you wheel me from the inpatient tower to the ICU for proning and intubation.
An electron microscope image from the first U.S. case of COVID-19. Those spherical viruses could well linger in the air. (courtesy CDC)
Just because it doesn’t look dirty doesn’t mean it’s clean.
That’s always been true, of course. But the coronavirus
pandemic is reinforcing this lesson in unspeakably tragic ways. A gleaming
doorknob could well be coated…
My beat-up copy of Al Bartlett's "The Essential Exponential"
I have not rented space in a former Minuteman missile silo, nor have I stockpiled a cubic kilometer of toilet paper or a reservoir’s worth of PET water bottles. But Covid-19 is extremely serious, and it’s serious because of something Al Bartlett told me 15 years ago…