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Today in English is weird: "every Tom, Dick, and Harry" is singular for verb agreement.

"Tom, Dick, and Harry" is plural.

"Every Tom, every Dick, and every Harry" is plural again, but will look weird if written correctly.
"Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is going to want in on this." (Singular)

"Tom, Dick, and Harry are going to want in on this." (Plural)

"Tom, Dick, or Harry is going to want in on this. (Singular)

"Every Tom, every Dick, and every Harry are going to want in on this." (Plural)
"Every Tom, every Dick, or every Harry is going to want in on this." (Back to singular!)
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A thing that scares me is the way a lot of people talk about the "peak" of the virus like it's a fixed point.

A lot of the argument for opening up is "If we're past the peak, why stay closed?"
But the virus isn't a ball that was thrown into the air, with only so much force behind it and when it runs out of upward momentum it must inexorably fall. It is a self-propelled rocket that can refuel itself as it goes.
The peak will only be the peak in retrospect. We will only be able to look at when it peaked after the fact, after it has completely run its course. If we get careless because we have hit a current peak and we think it's gone... the rocket refuels. The upward trajectory resumes.
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The thing that kills me about the denialism of Trump calling the coronavirus a hoax is that even by what his defenders say, he was lying. His claim of a hoax have been disproven by time. He lied to his followers about what the danger was, for his own personal gain.
Trump is not a nuanced or precise speaker. He DID say coronavirus is a hoax, just like he's said Russia is a hoax. Those are the exact words he's used. We know he doesn't mean there's no such country as Russia, though. We know what he actually means.
When he said the coronavirus was a hoax (which, again, is what he said) we understand he meant the danger wasn't real. And it was. We understand he meant Democrats and the media were overhyping it. And they didn't.
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Status report: slept weird on my arm, can barely move it today without pain. Only pain med I have access to is Tylenol PM which makes me tired and loopy.

Planning to spend day in bathtub, even though I can't actually soak my upper arm...
...but because I have already determined bed is not comfortable right now even just laying down, whereas I can prop my arm up on the side of the tub and comfortably hold my phone or a bluetooth keyboard controller.
But depending on what exactly those sweet, sweet antihistamines do I may be too sleepy or too loopy to do anything except watch movies in here, so don't mind me if I'm not very present today.
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