again and again I think about poor Stringer carefully cultivating the local elections online left, remaining a renter his entire career, only to lose to a guy who is running for mayor of the city that is not his primary residence
but a lotta football left to play as they say!
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The actual gist of this story is that there is strong (and readily available) evidence that presymptomatic and asymptomatic people are driving the spread of the virus but U.S. officials are effectively denying this for some reason. cnn.com/2020/03/14/hea…
Left: the CDC website's list of symptoms. Right: WHO's. One seems designed to flag only the most serious cases, the other to try to catch everyone who might have it.
and this, like the Good Friday Accords was nearly a quarter-century ago, but those are the two answers that explain the otherwise inexplicable self-confidence of our liberal foreign policy establishment
For our health and happiness we should be radically pedestrianizing the entire country. Instead we'll make it illegal to walk along busy roads because billionaires don't want to share space with other humans on the way to the airport.
I don't strictly mean "closing areas off to cars," I mean places everywhere where people live and work and shop should be designed so it's pleasant and safe to walk around. This doesn't require density. It can be done without demanding the exurbs become Brooklyn.
Instead we'll make a choice to design places to accommodate driverless cars that only work correctly if they never encounter children crossing a street