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Tuesday, July 1, 2025
Recovery of Collapsed Airline Traffic in the US Backtracks
Traffiic data confirmed warnings by United and Delta of re-declining ticket sales, seinding airline shares down 3.7% intraday.
COVID-19 and the Garment Industry’s Invisible Hands
How the cornacrisis has led to investigations of garment industry supply chains to unearth worker exploitation and shady contractors.
Immaculate Deception, Fed Style
The Fed knows it it is up to no good as far as ordinary citizens are concerned, witness its propaganda efforts.
As Covid-19 Patients Skew Younger, Tracing Task Seems All But Impossible
Why Covid-19 infecting younger people is making disease contaiment harder.
How the SARS-COV-2 Virus Gets In and How to Block It: Aerosols, Droplets, Masks, Shields (with Discussion of Reinfection)
A symposium on SARS-COV-2 transmission, plus an aggregation of the findable cases of SARS-COV-2 reinfection (with commentary and speculation).
2:00PM Water Cooler 7/20/2020
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Contagious Protests
Street protests propagate across borders. The results point to social media as a vehicle for contagion.
Covid-19 Economic Realities Sinking in as Denialism Wanes, Desperation Rises
Putting some ugly Covid-19 facts together.
While EU Leaders Squabble, The Elephant in the Room Remains Unnoticed
Why the EU Covid-19 rescue program is destined to be a sick joke.
The Mekong River, Water Wars, and Information Wars
By Lambert Strether of Corrente I’m afraid this is a post where I did indeed catch a bird, just not the one that I intended to catch. I had thought to write a post the Mekong River part of the biosphere (as with coral, mangroves, soil, and algae in Lake Erie) but as it turned […]
Could Leaving ‘Room for the River’ Help Protect Communities from Floods?
A pioneering Dutch strategy offers one way to respond to the increasing threat of flooding.
