Is it time to officially move Wednesday What We’re Reading to Thursday? No, but you could be forgiven for thinking so. The ‘Rona Our native (adopted-native) Pennsylvania has about 65,000 recovered COVID cases and about 5,000 deaths. Neighboring New York has about 65,000 recovered COVID cases and about 30,000 deaths. Take that, Cuomo. COVID immunity […]
Coronavirus Seroprevalence studies in France and Spain indicate about 5% Wuflu penetration – Which is… not great, and neatly scotches my pet theory about vastly greater prevalence than we realized. (If the result holds up, anyway.) Estimates of about 20% in New York still strike me as a bit high, given that Madrid, the epicenter […]
I’m working on a tightly-estimated customer project at work these days, so I haven’t been doing as much reading during the day, nor as much blog-post-assembling. Sorry for the wait! Coronavirus NYC social distancing narc line flooded with obscenities Digital media taking a coronavirus-related drubbing – Which is kind of a surprising outcome to me. […]
The weeks seem to get longer and longer every day. Books Parvusimperator finished the French Rifle Book from Headstamp Publishing, and speaks very highly of its content and production values. He’s now reading First In, Last Out, a history of South African artillery in the latter days of the Cold War. Time-Sensitive There’s a SpaceX […]
Reverse Tax Day edition! (Your correspondents got their economic stimulus payouts today. If you’re due one and don’t need it, consider sending it, or some of it, to a local food bank.) Books and Other Media I read Under the Eagle, which I found at a library sale a while ago. It’s the first in […]
Between Easter and an evening-hours project I’ve been working on, I didn’t have time to compile the What We’re Reading post this week. I’ll roll our selections from this week into next week’s. February 1923 The new-model German light cruiser Thetis is broadly equivalent to our recent light cruisers, though granted with added anti-air firepower […]
Full isolation continues. Food and ammunition stocks holding out well. No April Fool’s jokes here. We’re all business. Wuhan Coronavirus: Maps and Data Coronavirus resource use projections, state by state – I can’t vouch for their methodology one way or the other. A new champion (in the field of US coronavirus maps) rises – This […]
Up to full isolation here at the world headquarters. Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague Original research! – I was interested how quickly mitigating measures work, so I made a timeline showing deaths, daily percentage increase in deaths, and mitigation measures across five European countries, the US, South Korea, and China. It also has a chart […]
Parvusimperator is on vacation this week, both from our day job and from the Soapbox, so with the exception of one or two items from the end of last week, this one’s all me. Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague Your correspondent is under the weather, but it’s not the coronavirus1 – That said, if you […]
Making up for a light week last week, a heavier one this time around. Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague Watt’s Up With That has a wonderfully in-depth coronavirus update from last Friday Defense Marine Corps marksmanship test to get harder – Appropriately, in the parlance of competitive shooters, they’re moving to Trooper Class. Raytheon gets […]