1. So much of the mistrust swirling around mask recommendations from WHO and other authorities seems to have arisen out of confusion between receiver protection (your mask protects you from others) and source control (your mask protects others from you).

— Carl T. Bergstrom (@CT_Bergstrom) April 3, 2020

I think this is, largely, bullshit. This is after-the-fact ass-covering and not the way it happened at all.

The WHO (and others) stated that masks were completely ineffective. Period. That was the lie, and that most people knew was a lie.

Besides, good studies have shown that regular surgical masks do protect the wearer against infection, and at about the same rate as N95 masks.

So, the above is just…wrong, in several different ways.

The mammoth US unemployment claims in their historical context. pic.twitter.com/UNDwhBMpZt

— Ben Riley-Smith (@benrileysmith) April 2, 2020

Economy is the walking dead. Damn.

The Unemployment Rate Is Probably Around 13 Percent. It’s almost certainly at its highest level since the Great Depression. Here’s how we estimated it.

Holy fuck.

I agree with this assessment, by the way. I was thinking 12-15 percent yesterday just doing basic math. Anyone who thinks this won’t have an enormous impact for a very long time is a huge dunce, perhaps the biggest ever discovered by science.

Wore a shirt yesterday that I haven’t put on in about two years. Used to be a bit loose. Now it’s snug. Still not accustomed to the fabric of my shirts touching my arms so much again. I’ll take it, though.

The Invention of the AeroPress.

No matter how you make coffee, it all tastes like licking a nasty garbage can to me.

After the initial impact of shutdowns on a few industries, the coronavirus pandemic is leaving a much broader swath of unemployment.

Motherfuckers who don’t know how the economy works are learning how the economy works.

Ok, no, they are probably not. People don’t learn. But it’s a nice fantasy.

Record 6.6 million people file for unemployment benefits.

This is unprecedented, obviously. It shows the stimulus should have been larger and more immediate. This will not end well.

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— Siberian Fox (@SilverVVulpes) April 1, 2020

Everyone thinks they’re hard till there’s a gun in their face.

Until recently tuberculosis was the infectious disease that killed most people per year. 1.18 million.

On an average day 3,231 die from TB.
(1,180,000/365.24=3,231)

COVID-19 has surpassed this and is now the world's most deadly infectious disease.https://t.co/wU7x3bxmVx pic.twitter.com/gFRarioWud

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) April 2, 2020

So much for that “But we should be worrying about the fluuuuuuuuuuuuu” ri-fucking-diculous horseshit all the assclowns were spouting two months ago.

No one who said that or wrote that should ever be allowed to have an opinion on anything again.