Links for you. Science:
This Coronavirus Is Unlike Anything in Our Lifetime, and We Have to Stop Comparing It to the Flu
Q&A with HK microbiologist Yuen Kwok-yung who helped confirm coronavirus’ human spread
Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1 Could Be Game Changer
Why do dozens of diseases wax and wane with the seasons—and will COVID-19?
How U.S. coronavirus testing stalled: Flawed tests, red tape and resistance to using the millions of tests produced by the WHO
Other:
I’m a Bernie volunteer. Here’s how Joe Biden can win Bernie voters. (absolute must-read, especially for people who don’t like Sanders)
Don’t Let Trump Off the Hook for the Coronavirus Crisis (I’m not seeing much rage directed against him. Democrats need to stop being so gormless)
Trump and his supporters are already rewriting recent coronavirus history
What If Trump Tried to Cancel the November Election?
Inoculating the Coronavirus Vaccine Against the Profit Pandemic
Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week ‘I didn’t know about it’
The Infuriating Story of How the Government Stalled Coronavirus Testing
Trump Is Running a Pandemic Response Like a Business, With Disastrous Results
History Will Reckon Seriously With Bernie Sanders. So Should We All.
Republicans like me built this moment. Then we looked the other way.
The View From Above
Yaas Kween
Drone footage captures the nearly bare streets of Boston
Evangelical Group to Contact Indigenous Peoples in Amazon Amid Coronavirus Pandemic
Minnesota and Vermont Just Classified Grocery Clerks as Emergency Workers
Would You Burn Down The World For A Dollar
How Democrats Should Navigate Pandemic Politics
Thousands of DC Twentysomethings Live in Group Houses. What Happens When a Housemate Gets Diagnosed With the Virus?
Trump: State and Local Governments, Not Him, Have to Solve Coronavirus Shortages
How McKinsey Got Greedy
Low-Cost Ventilators Could Be Available Next Year. But Will It Happen?
For the Rich, Covid-19 Protections. For Health Workers, a Shrug.
mikethemadbiologist
Video emerges showing Trump talking about cutting pandemic team in 2018, despite saying last week ‘I didn’t know about it’
Given Trump’s level of mental competence he may not have known anything about it 2 minutes after the press conference, and that is generously assuming he understood the role of the team in the first place. He probably thought that they were the equivalent of a team of drywallers.