Wear a mask, or don’t. I do, as do a majority of people I’m seeing in stores. Some don’t (the Darwin Awards do have some stiff competition), but it’s the ones who sort of wear a mask that I wonder about. Caga o quítate de la bacinica.
Maybe 10% of the people I see in stores have masks positioned so that their mouths are covered but their noses aren’t. I saw a woman in her mid-seventies in a grocery store yesterday whose mask was doing an excellent job of covering her chin. Yeah, that’ll work for an airborne virus.
Coronavirus News and Analysis:
“We Need Protein” — Coronavirus Pandemic Deepens New York’s Hunger Crisis
The pandemic has caused historic levels of hunger nationwide. Drone footage of seemingly endless lines of cars waiting to pick up food from pantries in Pennsylvania, Florida, and Texas convey the scope of our new reality, in which food insecurity is meaningfully higher than at any point for which there is comparable data, as a study by the Brookings Institution found. According to that report, more than 1 in 5 households in the U.S. were food insecure by the end of April, the most recent month for which data is available, as were 2 in 5 households with mothers of children ages 12 and under.
World Looks On In Disbelief as U.S. Infections Rise
As coronavirus cases surge in the U.S. South and West, health experts in countries with falling case numbers are watching with a growing sense of alarm and disbelief, with many wondering why virus-stricken U.S. states continue to reopen and why the advice of scientists is often ignored.
“It really does feel like the U.S. has given up,” said Siouxsie Wiles, an infectious-diseases specialist at the University of Auckland in New Zealand — a country that has confirmed only three new cases over the past three weeks and where citizens have now largely returned to their pre-coronavirus routines.
“I can’t imagine what it must be like having to go to work knowing it’s unsafe,” Wiles said of the U.S.-wide economic reopening. “It’s hard to see how this ends. There are just going to be more and more people infected, and more and more deaths. It’s heartbreaking.”
U.S. economy will likely need more support, Fed's Rosengren says
Translation: When it comes to inflation, you ain’t seen nuthin yet.
US employers step up anti-unionization efforts as pandemic spurs activism
Is the pandemic getting worse in the US?
In related news, there’s at least a one-in-three chance that Deutsche Bank will implode under a mountain of derivative debt. 😅
From The Annals of You Can’t Fix Stupid: American Airlines bans activist who was kicked off plane for refusing to wear mask
