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The criminal complaint against the 17-year-old who allegedly shot three people in Kenosha is chilling. (I’ll offer more thoughts on this event later.) https://int.nyt.com/data/documenttools/kyle-rittenhouse-criminal-complaint/8f4a5b31354d

Ulric S. Haynes—ambassador, university president, NSC staffer, diesel-engine salesman, and literal character out of a Tom Wolfe story—died of #COVID19 last week at the age of 89.He was a friend

I limit my interaction with anonymous twitter accounts (and urge others to do likewise) because of cases like this. Consider them guilty until proven innocent:https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2020/08/twitter-account-embattled-metoostem-found

Scott Alexander of @slatestarcodex is threatening to delete his blog because the New York Times is planning to reveal his real name:https://slatestarcodex.com/2020/06/22/nyt-is-threatening-my-safety-by-revealing-my-real-name-so-i-am-deletin

I make the case for renewing the covenant between doctors and society.Step 1: make doctors draft-eligible https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/case-drafting-doctors/610696/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

In March, 43.5% of workers on a South Korean call center floor were infected with #COVID19. Look how the cases cluster in a packed indoor space, and spare others not

Coronavirus is bad in New York. But just wait for Africa.Total ventilators by country:USA: 172,000Sierra Leone: 13South Sudan: 4Liberia: 3Central African Republic: 3https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/04/why-covid-might-hit-african-nations