The Chicago Tribune has dropped its paywall for a Q&A about COVID-19. It’s a very good read, comprehensive, and knowledge is power:

Just from the narrow perspective of the work I do (at an advocacy non-profit in the financial services field), Biden is just absolutely the worst possible candidate who could emerge from the Democratic field, and it’s not even close. He loves banks. He loves that industry. Him as the nominee is bad for us, and if he…

There’s at least one actual statistical analysis that shows Bernie supporters are just as proportionally hostile as every other candidates supporters, so maybe we can fuck off with that argument already?

How many of you young Michiganians stayed home to watch the Bachelor Finale instead of voting in the primary?

Women, specifically white women.

Welp. Do I like Biden? No I do not. Is he going to be the nominee? Looks that way. Does that make me happy? No it does not. Will I vote for him and try to encourage as many people as possible to do the same? Absolutely yes I will. And I have to try to keep the faith that the younger generation of progressives will…

Not just medical professionals need those masks. My father’s manufacturing company is having a very difficult time finding N95 masks to protect the workers against fiberglass. This is a very dangerous situation not only for his employees, but also is concerning if his company is not alone in their quest to find…

The only thing Biden has on Bernie is Obama.

Trash is better than a dumpster fire. So choose the “trash” that can beat the dumpster fire in the general election. THAT is why folks are voting for Biden - they don’t think the optics of a “Democratic Socialist” will play well in a general election against Trump. If Trump and his supporters are cheering for Bernie…

‘She is doing so because the Democratic Socialist isn’t doing enough to prove he cares about her as much as he does the white working-class man in Iowa’

Yeah, I wouldn’t. It’s not worth it. Your kids may be disappointed, but you won’t have potentially contributed to the spread of a pandemic virus. I’d say that outweighs their disappointment.

So, I’m not sure prisoners possibly drinking hand sanitizer (???) is such a big deal that it requires any real extra effort or, like, new formal policies and procedures. Just make the hand sanitizer available. And if you feel compelled to address the possibility of prisoners drinking hand sanitizers (???) tell…

But...of course they could use it.  What are you talking about?  That prisoners *could* drink it (???) does not inevitably lead to the conclusion that it cannot possibly be made available.

Unfortunately, I see it as another example of the political/anti-science divide, in which case logic doesn’t help much.

literally just came from a meeting where my boss said “I couldn’t give a shit about the coronavirus.” I also live and work in a city with a pop of 70k, though, so who knows how concerned one should be

In times of economic distress, capital driven markets help vendors and investors exploit the marginalized to accumulate more capital.

I’m really looking forward to a day when America’s Puritanical rejection of drugs like ketamin, MDMA and psilocybin due to their “party” reputations will be overcome by common sense.

My mother uses it for both depression and chronic pain management.  I can say that I have noticed a huge difference in her over the last year, for the better.  

People on the lower end of our economy scale won’t have the luxury of working from home - the housekeeping staff at the hospital or clinic, the people who deliver food and take away waste - the kitchen staff.... many of these positions are the employer of last resort, and I am hopeful that the medical facilities have…