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Everything is horrible beyond imagining, and it's only getting worse.

So this is a thread to recommend something you're enjoying right now. Something not politics, not a history of past pandemics.

I'll do two, a book and an album.
.@BessKalb's “Nobody Will Tell You This But Me,” is hilarious, wise, and will make you feel better even as the world makes you feel worse.

It will also make you want to call your parents/grandparents if you still can, which is important right now.
penguinrandomhouse.com/books/580375/n…
.@TOKiMONSTA's "Oasis Nocturno" is my favorite album of the year, so far. The first four songs are a killer sequence and I've had "To Be Remote" on loop while writing. soundcloud.com/tokimonsta/set…

Okay. Your turn.
I'm going to add one more, actually. I installed the Twitter Demetricator, and I find it makes this place a lot more usable. It's easier to control my own attention here without the social popularity signals attached to everything. bengrosser.com/projects/twitt…
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It is INSANE that a national testing program is being framed as a concession to congressional Democrats.

It is even more insane that it might be true: yes, Trump should WANT testing. But his repeated view is he doesn't want anything that leads to higher confirmed case numbers.
The question of what the correct negotiating strategy is with a completely reckless partner who is also the party the public will hold politically responsible for failure is...complex.
But also: this isn't just a political question. Absent testing, real people will die. They will lose loved ones. The economy will be broken, and so will many who depend on it, for longer.
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Great piece exploring the question many of us are obsessing over right now: Why do some places become coronavirus hot spots, and others — even when they have more vulnerable populations, and slower political responses — don't? vox.com/2020/4/21/2122…
There's a lot in the piece, but something my conversations on this have me thinking a lot about is the interaction of timing and seeding. In particular, our early understanding of COVID-19 was built on places where the disease was seeded before health systems were looking for it.
One thing I think is possible now — and a reason behind some model revision — is that we know what we're looking for, and our interventions are pretty effective, even without the testing we wish we had.
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According to Health Management Associates, Covid-19 will lead to 12-35 million people losing employer-sponsored health coverage.

As many as 11 million people could find themselves uninsured, wiping out about half of Obamacare’s coverage gains overnight. healthmanagement.com/wp-content/upl…
And even those who keep their insurance are going to see it degrade as employers rush to save money by raising premiums and deductibles, and narrowing networks, as they've been doing even in good economic times.
This is a crisis. But it is also, perhaps, an opportunity to solve the foundational mistake of America's health policy system: typing health insurance to employment.
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