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PSA: An aggressive moisturizing regime can go a long way towards counteracting the chapped hands many of y'all are currently experiencing. L'Occitane shea butter for the carriage trade, Eucerin Advanced Repair Hand Cream (what I'm currently using).
Be profligate! Slather that stuff on as soon as you have gotten home and washed your hands. Then every time it occurs to you, which should be frequently. Before you go to bed. As soon as you wake up. After breakfast. After the shower. Just because you need a little "You" moment.
I started this when I started the Defcon 1 hand-washing three weeks ago, and my hands are actually in better shape now than they were before.
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Very good thread on credibility in journalism--and let me add, it suggests why the push to get journalists to "call balls and strikes" is so profoundly misguided.
Basically, it would accelerate the spend-down of reputational capital that reporters acquired by not calling winners and losers in contentious disputes. Your side of those disputes gains an evanescent advantage followed by a permanent disadvantage.
Now, of course, I am an opinion journalist! I do call balls and strikes ...

But readers who don't agree with my opinions come to any facts I lay out, no matter how neutral and unobjectionable, with a jaundiced eye. That's the price.
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I am told that in movies, they actually try not to make the numbers in things like heists too big, because people can't grasp a billion dollars. You have to put the numbers close enough to the average person's frame of reference that they can understand what it buys.
Most people can basically grasp what a million dollars looks like, in consumer goods. If you live in an expensive city, you have a good idea of what you'd buy with, say, $50 million. But unless you yourself are ultrawealthy, you have no emotional grasp of what $1 billion means.
For readers: this is why I often give you some stupid number for context on government figures, like "It's enough to buy a brand-new Ferrari for every member of the Harvard graduating class". It's easier for most people to understand Ferraris than intuit $$$ past 7 figures.
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Another potential side effect of quarantines and travel restrictions: do Uber and Lyft survive?
I'm on record as saying that there is a viable business there for one, and possibly both, of the firms, though smaller than it looked when they finally stopped subsidizing rides. But they haven't gotten there yet. Neither firm is profitable.
Travel is a huge portion of their business, especially outside maybe 5 metro areas in the US. So is "going to small rooms to get drunk around a lot of other people".
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