Monday Cup Of Links #30 - Novel Excerpts, History Book Reco, Made-Up Words, Donald Knuth

Stay Safe. Stay Indoors. Stay Sane.

Happy Monday! 

It’s over two months since the Bay Area ordered Shelter In Place. Some counties are planning to embark on the long road to opening back up. Which makes me nervous, because the US response to coronavirus hasn’t filled me with confidence, though the Bay Area has dealt better than most. 

It annoys me to see people not take it seriously, and still go out to parks, play contact sports, and not wear masks when they go to get groceries. And not all grocery stores are doing well with enforcing masks or social distancing or limiting the number of people in the store. 

I really hope they open very very slowly, because it doesn’t take much to turn it into exponential growth. What is scary is how having basically the worst illness of your life is still considered “mild” by hospitals, and it doesn’t seem like you get tested or placed under observation unless you’re pretty far gone. Reading some case studies, I realize it’s very easy to go from feeling totally fine to cytokine storm. We…