News flash! An American moon landing is schedule for today, our first in more than half a century. Watch Odie on your news channels. To quote:Experts have made the analogy that landing on the moon is as difficult as teeing off a golf ball in New York and aiming for a small hole in Los Angeles.
- A National Geographic publication.
- Has written 13 books and published more than 150 papers on medicine.
- Co-inventor of a rotavirus vaccine.
- Advisor to the FDA and CDC.
- Written like a Q&A, an insiders perspective on the pandemic, a hindsight look at where we were, are and heading.
- So what do we do now?
- Here is a complete review of Offit's book.
But you say, I've had it with the pandemic, and I just want it to go away. Unfortunately, it won't, and just last week I added to my iPhone 14 Days,
- Organized by Authors Guild as a collective effort.
- Guild President Douglas Preston is co-editor with Margaret Atwook.
- 36 co-authors contributed: Charlie Jane Anders, Margaret Atwood, Jennine Capó Crucet, Joseph Cassara, Angie Cruz, Pat Cummings, Sylvia Day, Emma Donoghue, Dave Eggers, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, John Grisham, Maria Hinojosa, Mira Jacob, Erica Jong, CJ Lyons, Celeste Ng, Tommy Orange, Mary Pope Osborne, Doug Preston, Alice Randall, Caroline Randall Williams, Ishmael Reed, Roxana Robinson, Nelly Rosario, James Shapiro, Hampton Sides, R. L. Stine, Nafissa Thompson-Spires, Monique Truong, Scott Turow, Luis Alberto Urrea, Rachel Vail, Weike Wang, De’ Shawn Charles Winslow and Meg Wolitzer.
Fourteen Days may take its cue from Boccaccio’s Decameron, the 14th-century compendium of stories ostensibly told by a group of fugitives from the Black Death, whose structure and ambition has been wildly influential, but there are marked differences. Notably, as this novel’s foreword from the Authors Guild Foundation notes, Boccaccio’s storytellers had escaped to the countryside; here, the principals are stuck in a city from which the wealthy and privileged have quickly fled, and in whose streets and avenues the surging noise of humanity has been replaced by the wail of sirens bearing the sick and dying to rapidly filling hospitals.
- #1 On Immunity, Eula Biss: all about why people do and avoid vaccinations. Not sure why this would be #1, for it was written in 2015.
- #2 Missing Microbes, Martin Blaser: explores the strange and microscopic world inside your guts. Okay, something is wrong with this list, for it was published in 2014.
- Forget Blinklist.
Here are some cartoons about COVID-19. I start with RFK Jr. because he is a certified idiot.
A few others.
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