I realized this morning when my shorts were a bit tight that I’ve spent too much time on my butt. My exercise routine has fallen off the past few months, I’ve put on the pounds, and I’m not sleeping as well. My wife says she’s worried about me. Stupid me: I’m healthy, and I shouldn’t
Category: Curated Reader Comments
Posts that contain curated reader comments from Reddit and/or NextDoor
Open the schools! Now? *
Aren’t these great images? Kids back in school, where they belong. Parents back at work. Sure, there are masks, and the kids are far away from each other, but they’re learning, and that’s what’s important. Teachers are there in person, which is what they’ve trained so hard to do. Trouble is, these pictures aren’t from
Teachers and students aren’t cannon fodder *
“To be very clear, we don’t want CDC guidance to be a reason why people don’t reopen their schools” VP Pence, head of the White House Coronavirus Task Force, July 14, 2020 In fewer than 20 words, Pence has perfectly described the anti-science, dangerous stance of the federal government regarding the reopening of public schools.
Attacks on retail workers must stop too! *
More and more articles are coming out documenting the harassment and threatening behavior essential expendable retail workers have to endure every day. We’ve all heard about the Starbucks employee who got $100,000 in case after a video of a Karen berating him went viral. But the vast majority of retail workers subjected to this behavior
State of the States *
Today I thought I’d walk through how I use the Zorgi Score calculation table (SDT4) to analyze how a state is doing. Remember that if you really want to get into the guts of the calculations, there’s a complete explanation of the metrics here and the calculations here. Since I live in California, let’s start
Attacks on Public Health Officers Must Stop *
The anti-maskers aren’t content to spout their nonsense at public meetings with health officials. They won’t stop until they drive these hard-working public servants out of office entirely, to be replaced with toadies who will follow the White House line. In Orange County, undergoing one of the biggest outbreaks in California, these troglodytes attacked Dr.
YAM – Tests per Case *
“Cases, Cases, Cases! If we didn’t test so much and so successfully, we would have very few cases. If you test 40,000,000 people, you are going to have many cases that, without the testing (like other countries), would not show up every night on the Fake Evening News.” Tweet from the Commander in Chief, July
How bad is it, really? *
“Now we have tested over 40 million people. But by so doing, we show cases, 99% of which are totally harmless.” – DJ Trump, 7/4/20 “I think we are going to be very good with the coronavirus. I think that, at some point, that’s going to sort of just disappear, I hope.” – DJ Trump,
Announcing Zorgi.me *
I’ve been needing a repository for my FAQ’s, definitions, sources, etc., and now I have one. I’m still working on the site, but it has most of the content I need, including every post I’ve ever done since March 29. It’s kind of interesting to go back and look at the tiny numbers: Encinitas had
More on the Zorgi Score *
June 30, 2020 One of the reasons I wanted to develop the Zorgi Score is that it gives me a structured way to discuss all the metrics I consider most important when looking at a locality. Unfortunately, I’ve just figured out how to implement it at the county level, and I still haven’t provided you