Slate ran an article last week about some cooking show being the “competence porn” we need right now. Andrew Cuomo is even better than that because he is actually addressing circumstances, rather than a distraction from circumstances. It’s why we love Fauci (though less so now that he’s minimizing for the…

So there will be a major contraction in the job market whenever this is over. Can we doxx these kids now so we know who are too stupid and selfish to be employable over other deserving candidates?

Sorry, but Berkey Creamery >> Madison’s ice cream. Have been multiple times. It is possible I got bad choices in Madison, but probably not multiple times. I will literally road trip 4 hours to Berkey Creamery.

The crappy thing is that very few people who are being careless or willfully idiotic or risky will bear real consequences from this. If their parents didn’t let them come home from Ft. Lauderdale and made them sleep in the yard, I’d like that. More likely, they’ll just infect some nice old person with disastrous…

People can and should take exercise outside - even outside their yards, if they stay away from other people. Jonah Hill and Tyler Cameron could very well have done everything right. Maybe Arnold, too.

My husband says I make line friends.

Thank you for the work you do

Me too. Talk to your neighbors from a distance, and use videochat, phone, text with friends and family. Offer to do something to help others. Create projects that you think might be helpful. Dive into a task rather than just watching TV. It’s helping me a lot as an anxious extrovert who tends toward action and…

On 9/11, I was in grad school and woke up to the Today Show and saw the plane hit the second tower. I felt so disoriented. I called my parents an hour later, and they had no idea, but they quickly learned from their hysterical daughter screaming over the phone.

Exactly. That’s a good song and this blog post is a shitty hot take.

Just to clarify, one negative test only means right now. There will be people who test negative who contract the virus later on. Anyone who has not had it still needs to be vigilant. And also, people who have recovered need to remain vigilant, too: there was a NY Times article about some Chinese patients recovering,…

We went to the Air and Space Museum because all Smithsonians close indefinitely starting tomorrow morning. It’s an amazing museum, and it helped to make our problems feel small. In there are surviving aircraft from Pearl Harbor, the Apollo 11 command module, the Enola Gay, Nazi planes, drones that fly overhead in…

Focus on small businesses, and if you’re inclined to do this, just ask the manager if they can use the money in the near term. My bets are yes.

You would be fired from your job if you handled anything at all this way. It’s NOT off-limits to solicit the views and recommendations of ER professionals on the ground, who are dealing with this. It is abundantly idiotic to do so selectively (who am I related to? who do I play golf with?) and without having someone…

A very German hero for these times.

By all means, tax your lungs in a time of a virulent respiratory illness. You are young and healthy and your body has the resources to fight it. Keep it that way.

Caffeine sensitive people (incl. those slow to metabolize caffeine, like those who can’t have much caffeine with dinner or they might be awake until 3 a.m.) should take a lot of care with caffeine pills. I live on soda - have all my life - and took caffeine pills a couple times in high school and a half one in…

You should lovingly respond to fk off, no way are you doing that and no way should anyone else. We’re not visiting our own senior parents/in laws and there isn’t a current chemo patient amongst them. You may never know if one of you have it. Start managing their expectations now.

Off topic, but I love Bernd dos Brot. There’s a tiny stuffed one in my kitchen watching me. 

Walk dog. Use a dicey dog poop pickup bag. Wonder to yourself, did my finger poke thru? Did I touch something as I tied the bag? You won’t touch your face.