I am at work on a book, The Great Deliverance, for @PrincetonUPress, about the long fight against epidemic disease. And I have been thinking lately about the social isolation of #COVID19 victims, hospitalized, possibly dying, & unable to see family or anyone else, except medical staff dressed like this.

So a little after 9 a.m. I get an email "Interior ​to Host Press Call on Endangered Species Act," I request dial-in information as a reporter. It never arrives. Instead, I get a press release about a new Trump initiative to "improve" the #EndangeredSpeciesAct by gutting it. Together with endorsements by James Imhofe & a string of other GOP dunderheads, the beef industry, the home building industry, the energy industry--and absolutely no one who gives fuck-all about the natural world.