Done Since 2020-07-26

High order bits, from yesterday:

• How Jared Kushner’s Secret Testing Plan “Went Poof Into Thin Air” | Vanity Fair
• " Most troubling of all, perhaps, was a sentiment the expert said a member of Kushner’s team expressed: that because the virus had hit blue states hardest, a national plan was unnecessary and would not make sense politically. “The political folks believed that because it was going to be relegated to Democratic states, that they could blame those governors, and that would be an effective political strategy,” said the expert. "
• solarbird | Today's News (2020/8/1): I don't know why I'm doing this anymore (includes much of the above article)
• siderea | The Darkest Timeline [Coronavirus2020, pols, US, p/a/s, Patreon]
• " There are a lot of Americans who really do think that there's a whole lot of their fellow Americans who really do deserve to die, or, at least, they wish would die and like to imagine would make the world, or at least America, a better place if they would just die already. "

Not surprised. Go read it. I'll wait. Then see mood.

There were a few good things this week. Got the TV installed; watched Pirates of Penzance with Colleen; did some programming. I don't think it matters.

( Notes & links, as usual )