Now that I’ve got a desk, the new apartment is starting to make sense. My desktop system is now back up and running after several days downtime at the old apartment (which no longer had Internet and also had fewer and fewer uninterruptible power supplies), but I can’t really use it because I don’t yet have a chair at the new place. (A new chair is waiting for me at my mailbox place and will require assembly.)
So for now, I’m still on my bed with my Pixelbook.
Pandemic
National
Lara Korte, “The man who started the movement to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom has COVID-19,” Sacramento Bee, September 7, 2021, https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article254051993.html
Andrea Salcedo, “Ohio judge reverses colleague’s decision on covid patient’s ivermectin treatment: ‘Judges are not doctors,’” Washington Post, September 7, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/09/07/ohio-judge-reverses-ivermectin-order/
Matthew Perrone and Dee-Ann Durbin, “COVID-19 surge in the US: The summer of hope ends in gloom,” Associated Press, September 8, 2021, https://apnews.com/article/lifestyle-health-pandemics-coronavirus-pandemic-north-carolina-b9012bd212ef28dcceec583eb3ca7612
Lizzie Roberts and Paul Nuki, “Don’t start booster vaccine doses too soon, warns JCVI scientist,” Telegraph, September 8, 2021, https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/08/dont-start-booster-vaccine-doses-soon-warns-jcvi-scientist/
Annie Linskey et al., “Biden announces sweeping new vaccine mandates for businesses, federal workers,” Washington Post, September 9, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/vaccine-mandate-federal-employees/2021/09/09/1c1ce9dc-116b-11ec-882f-2dd15a067dc4_story.html
Eileen Drage O’Reilly, “Monster risk: Fauci says COVID cases 10x too high,” Axios, September 9, 2021, https://www.axios.com/fauci-no-control-covid-a2572210-dbdb-48b0-aa2e-92e8e9fcd69a.html
Economy
Anne Branigin, “As pandemic aid ends, these women feel left behind at a crucial time: ‘The recovery hasn’t happened,’” Lily, September 8, 2021, https://www.thelily.com/as-pandemic-aid-ends-these-women-feel-left-behind-at-a-crucial-time-the-recovery-hasnt-happened/
Infrastructure
Oriana Gonzalez, “Sanders insists Dems’ spending package remain at $3.5 trillion,” Axios, September 8, 2021, https://www.axios.com/sanders-manchin-spending-package-35-trillion-536a9c7f-6dd1-450a-8d65-c6dd986cc86e.html
Hans Nichols, “Manchin backs as little as $1 trillion of Biden’s $3.5 trillion plan,” Axios, September 8, 2021, https://www.axios.com/scoop-manchin-backs-as-little-as-1-trillion-of-bidens-35-trillion-plan-91d079e0-84a7-4f8f-94d4-212827a61339.html
Abortion
Devlin Barrett and Ann E. Marimow, “Justice Department sues Texas to block six-week abortion ban,” Washington Post, September 9, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/courts_law/texas-abortion-justice-lawsuit/2021/09/09/5d3eae0a-117a-11ec-9cb6-bf9351a25799_story.html
Donald Trump
Associated Press, “Republicans start election ‘investigation’ in Pennsylvania,” Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, September 9, 2021, https://triblive.com/news/pennsylvania/republicans-start-election-investigation-in-pennsylvania/