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SURVIVING THE PANDEMIC: “Nobody move, nobody get hurt.”
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Published: Mar 31, 2020
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Beyond Classification
We were in a small bakery on a small island. (Definition of small: golf carts, no cars.) It was crowded: 4 customers. A man — a friend to everyone in the bakery — entered and said, ironically, “Nobody move, nobody get hurt.”
By my amateur calculation, New York is 5 to 10 days away from the spike in hospital admissions and deaths, and then, if we’re lucky, the curve starts to flatten. The Kornbluth report: So far, so good. My excursions are rare. To the grocery. On days when it’s not freezing, my daughter and I walk two blocks to a playground/park with a rubberized track that schools use –– okay: used to use –– for track meets. We banter, interrupted by her ironic command: “Stay in your lane!” I comply. Ironically.
Nobody move, nobody get hurt. Stay in your lane.
SAVE A SEAT FOR ME: JOSH RITTER. TONIGHT. 8 PM ET.
Last Tuesday, Josh Ritter gave his first “Silo Session” live stream. From his couch, he gave a delightful kind-of-concert and raised $20,000 for WinNYC. Tonight’s stream, a benefit for Food Bank for New York City, is a new twist on an old-fashioned radio concept: programming by listeners calling in to dedicate favorite songs. (The mail was a crazy deluge. The program is set.) Pick the way you want to watch it here.
I’m hoping someone has requested “Change of Time,” performed here with Sam Kassirer:
TRUMP TO GOVERNORS: I’D LIKE YOU TO DO US A FAVOR, THOUGH
Michelle Goldberg, in The Times
Trump isn’t just trying to feed his ego by coercing blue state governors into pretending that he’s doing a good job. He’s getting help with the November election. His campaign just rolled out a new ad, titled “Hope,” featuring appreciative quotes from Cuomo and Gov. Gavin Newsom of California. With the lives of their constituents at stake, they’ve given him the made-for-TV sound bites he was never able to extract from Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky.
For the many New Yorkers who loathe this president, it’s hard to imagine a more profound insult.
“I don’t think anyone was that surprised when he was as vindictive as he was after the trial in firing people and having them marched out of the White House, and I don’t think anybody can be all that surprised now,” Schiff said of Trump. “Dismayed, horrified, appalled, yes. Their worst fears realized once again, yes. Surprised, probably not.”
Republican senators knew who Trump was and they refused to remove him. Now we’re all, as the president said of the former ambassador Marie Yovanovitch, going to go through some things.
I hate to give this guy more free rent in your head, but one more headshaker…. CBS and the Times obtained a recording of Trump telling Governors on a call on Monday:
“I haven’t heard about testing in weeks. We’ve tested more now than any nation in the world. We’ve got these great tests… But I haven’t heard anything about testing being a problem.”
PROTECT YOUR FAMILY FROM COVID-19
600,000 people have watched Dr. David Price’s video in three days. One hour well spent.
“HAPPINESS IS A WARM GUN”
New York gossip: Beyond the predictable tension of 24/7 marriage, many wives are discovering there’s no living with their husbands – calls to divorce lawyers are spiking. At the same time, I hear that domestic abuse — husbands beating wives — is increasing in the white professional class. The good news in New York: few guns. Elsewhere? The Trump Administration has declared liquor stores, weed dispensaries, and gun shops as “essential” businesses.
TODAY’S MUSIC
John Coltrane, “My Favorite Things.” (To read about it and/or buy it, click here.)
ESSENTIALS
You don’t want to sleep through this time. The Head Butler Guide to Great Coffee
A mask. Any kind. Even homemade. The Washington Post explains why.
O’Keeffe’s Working Hands Hand Cream
or
Egyptian Magic. (You get much more and pay less at Costco.com)
ThinAddictives Cranberry Almond Thins 100 calories per snack pack.
Vitamin D
Data from 16 clinical trials involving 7,400 people show that taking vitamin D supplements reduces the risk of experiencing at least one respiratory infection including influenza and pneumonia by a third with positive benefits seen within 3 weeks.
(To buy Vitamin D3 Enhanced with Coconut Oil from Amazon, click here. To buy Vitamin D in Fruit Flavored Gummies from Amazon, click here.)
Apple Cider Vinegar Gummy Vitamins
Apple cider vinegar contains potassium, which thins mucus; and the acetic acid in it prevents germ growth, which could contribute to nasal congestion. (To buy Cider Vinegar Gummies from Amazon, click here.)
Chelated Zinc
Zinc is important in fighting infection. Food sources include red meat, shellfish, legumes, seeds and dark chocolate. Note: Not to be taken every day; it can cause toxicity. (To buy Chelated Zinc from Amazon, click here.)
GE MAKES JET ENGINES. NOW? WHY? WORKERS WALK OUT.
From Vice: On Monday, General Electric factory workers launched two separate protests demanding that the company convert its jet engine factories to make ventilators. At GE’s Lynn, Massachusetts aviation facility, workers held a silent protest, standing six feet apart. Union members at the company’s Boston headquarters also marched six feet apart, calling on the company to use its factories to help the country close its ventilator shortage amid the coronavirus pandemic.
YOUR NEW DAILY COMMUTE
A map, so you don’t get lost in your home.
BERNIE AND THE JEWS
Thank you, Bill Maher. From 2016.
